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title: _Common sense is always worth more than cunning. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Common sense is always worth more than cunning. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 16

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\_Common sense is always worth more than cunning.

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**What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:114:16
# text = _Common sense is always worth more than cunning.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Common sense *obl*; always, worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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