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title: In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 5

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In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.

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**What happens:** avoid, take, not fall · **To what, where:** one evil, care, another

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. 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:pg21:9:5
# text = In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | gerund |  | one evil |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent evil=Location |
| 2 | **take** | must · passive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into another *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into another=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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