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title: A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by touching them with his hands. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 52

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A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by touching them with his hands.

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**What happens:** accustom, touch · **To what, where:** BLIND MAN, men

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. 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:pg21:13:52
# text = A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by touching them with his hands.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	BLIND	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	distinguishing	distinguishing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | a BLIND MAN |  |  |  | to distinguishing different animals | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | with lion's hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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