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title: _Our best blessings are often the least appreciated. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Our best blessings are often the least appreciated. Who acts: Our. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 8

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\_Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.

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**Who acts:** Our · **What happens:** appreciate, bless · **To what, where:** best blessings

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Our), 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:pg19994:22:8
# text = _Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appreciate** | present · passive |  | Our best blessings |  |  |  | least, often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bless** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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