The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 8
_The useful is of much more importance and value, than the ornamental.
Who acts: useful · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (useful), 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 | _ | 8 importance | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 useful | det |
| 3 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 importance | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 importance | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 importance | case |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 importance | amod |
| 8 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 value | cc |
| 10 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 importance | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ornamental | punct |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 ornamental | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ornamental | det |
| 14 | ornamental | ornamental | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 importance | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 importance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the useful | of more importance and value and the ornamental | tree rules |
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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