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title: _Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them. Who acts: Precious things. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Jewel, sentence 5

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\_Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.

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**Who acts:** Precious things · **What happens:** be, not prize · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Precious things), 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:pg19994:41:5
# text = _Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	prize	prize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 | Precious things |  |  |  |  | without value; to those | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **prize** | can |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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