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title: _We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 7

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\_We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** make, despise · **To what, where:** much, useful

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg19994:53:7
# text = _We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ornamental	ornamental	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	despise	despise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | We | much of the ornamental |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product |
| 2 | **despise** | present | We *not said here* | the useful |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer useful=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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