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title: They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsusp… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 120

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They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.

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**Who acts:** eggs · **What happens:** act, fall · **To what, where:** unsuspected danger

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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:pg21:15:120
# text = They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	unsuspected	unsuspected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | present | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | without sufficient thought | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | future | eggs *= egg* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into unsuspected danger *result*; often *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into danger=Result |

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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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