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title: _Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear an… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. Who acts: _ Poverty. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 15

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\_Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

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**Who acts:** \_ Poverty · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ Poverty), 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:pg19994:13:15
# text = _Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | \_ Poverty with security |  |  |  |  | than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty; good *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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