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title: _Greatness has its penalties. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Greatness has its penalties. Who acts: Greatness. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 12

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\_Greatness has its penalties.

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**Who acts:** Greatness · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** penalties

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greatness), 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:pg19994:55:12
# text = _Greatness has its penalties.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	penalties	penalty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Greatness | Greatness's penalties |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Patient |

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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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