The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 8
_Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.
Who acts: Our · What happens: appreciate, bless · To what, where: best blessings
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 appreciated | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 blessings | amod |
| 4 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appreciated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 appreciated | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 least | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 appreciated | advmod |
| 9 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appreciated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appreciate | present · passive | Our best blessings | least, often property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bless | Our | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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