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title: It is a dangerous game, for one can easily catch cold and die from f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a dangerous game, for one can easily catch cold and die from fever, and both of these are dead already." Who acts: two, one, both. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 40

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It is a dangerous game, for one can easily catch cold and die from fever, and both of these are dead already."

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**Who acts:** two, one, both · **What happens:** be, catch, die · **To what, where:** dangerous game, cold, fever

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, one, both), 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:pg27200:126:40
# text = It is a dangerous game, for one can easily catch cold and die from fever, and both of these are dead already."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | two | a dangerous game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | can | one | cold |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | present | one *not said here* |  |  | fever |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fever=Causer |
| 4 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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