The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Jewel, sentence 5
_Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
Who acts: Precious things · What happens: be, not prize · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Precious things), 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 | _ | 3 things | punct |
| 2 | Precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 value | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 value | cop |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 value | case |
| 6 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 value | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prize | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 prize | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 prize | advmod |
| 12 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prize | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 value | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Precious things | without value; to those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not prize | can | things = thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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