The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 7
_We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.
Who acts: We · What happens: make, despise · To what, where: much, useful
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ornamental | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ornamental | det |
| 8 | ornamental | ornamental | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 much | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 despise | cc |
| 10 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 useful | det |
| 12 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 despise | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | We | much of the ornamental | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product | |||
| 2 | despise | present | We not said here | the useful | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer useful=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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