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title: One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole atten… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. Who acts: least. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 95

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One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.

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**Who acts:** least · **What happens:** wander, fix, fall, attend · **To what, where:** suburbs, whole attention, sky, deep well

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least), 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:pg21:5:95
# text = One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | least |  |  | the suburbs | evening | with least's whole attention | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through suburb=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  | least's whole attention *not said here* |  | the sky |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past | least |  |  |  |  | into a deep well *result*; accidentally *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result |
| 4 | **attend** |  | least |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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