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title: It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!" Who acts: stone, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 18

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It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!"

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**Who acts:** stone, you · **What happens:** be, lose · **To what, where:** treasure

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:106:18
# text = It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | stone |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | you | the treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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