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title: “I have surely a disposition to madness--'tis dreadfully hot here; m… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have surely a disposition to madness--'tis dreadfully hot here; my blood boils in my veins and my head is burning like a coal.” Who acts: people, blood, head. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 88

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“I have surely a disposition to madness--'tis dreadfully hot here; my blood boils in my veins and my head is burning like a coal.”

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**Who acts:** people, blood, head · **What happens:** have, boil, burn · **To what, where:** disposition

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (people, blood, head), 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:pg1597:7:88
# text = “I have surely a disposition to madness--'tis dreadfully hot here; my blood boils in my veins and my head is burning like a coal.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	boils	boil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | people | a disposition |  |  |  | to madness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Patient |
| 2 | **boil** *in a quote* | present | my blood |  |  |  |  | in my veins | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in vein=Instrument |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | present · progressive | my head |  |  |  |  | like a coal | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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