--- title: 'I am eating fire,' answered the man, laughing; 'and my name is Chi-… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'I am eating fire,' answered the man, laughing; 'and my name is Chi-idea-moto, for I am the flame-spirit, and can waste and destroy what I like.' Who acts: I, eating, name, my. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/) / 86 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 86 'I am eating fire,' answered the man, laughing; 'and my name is Chi-idea-moto, for I am the flame-spirit, and can waste and destroy what I like.' **Who acts:** I, eating, name, my · **What happens:** eat, answer, laugh, be, waste, destroy · **To what, where:** fire, man, Chi idea moto · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eating, name, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:1:86 # text = 'I am eating fire,' answered the man, laughing; 'and my name is Chi-idea-moto, for I am the flame-spirit, and can waste and destroy what I like.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 5 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 Chi Chi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 moto moto NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 waste waste VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 destroy destroy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present · progressive | I | fire | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | eating | | the man | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | eating *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | my name | Chi idea moto and the flame spirit | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | for the flame spirit | tree rules | | 6 | **waste** | can | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **destroy** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 8 | **like** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 9 | **name** | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/)