Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 90

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

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.

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	2 DOE	det
2	DOE	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accustomed	nsubj:pass
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 DOE	amod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eye	nummod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 DOE	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accustomed	aux:pass
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 graze	mark
10	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 accustomed	xcomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 near	case
12	near	near	ADV	_	10 graze	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 edge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edge	det
15	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 graze	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cliff	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cliff	det
18	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 edge	nmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
21	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	22 could	advmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 graze	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hope	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hope	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hope	det
26	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accustomed	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 securing	mark
28	securing	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hope	acl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 safety	nmod:poss
30	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 safety	amod
31	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 securing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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