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title: A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety. Who acts: hope. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 90

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A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety.

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**Who acts:** hope · **What happens:** accustom, graze, secure · **To what, where:** DOE, hope, greater safety

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope), 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:pg21:7:90
# text = A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DOE	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | a DOE in one eye |  | the hope |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **graze** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the edge of the cliff | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **secure** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | heat's greater safety |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition safety=Theme |

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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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