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title: _The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 9

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\_The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. 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:pg19994:21:9
# text = _The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conceit	conceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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