Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 52

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 MAN	det
2	BLIND	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 MAN	amod
3	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accustomed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	aux:pass
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	distinguishing	distinguishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accustomed	obl
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 touching	mark
11	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 accustomed	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touching	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 touching	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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.

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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