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title: “I must be feverish,” he said to himself; “after all, it is rather d… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I must be feverish,” he said to himself; “after all, it is rather dangerous to take a cold bath when one is feeling so hot.” Who acts: I, he, it, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 3

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“I must be feverish,” he said to himself; “after all, it is rather dangerous to take a cold bath when one is feeling so hot.”

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**Who acts:** I, he, it, one · **What happens:** be, say, take, feel · **To what, where:** himself, cold bath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, he, it, one), 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:pg3282:11:3
# text = “I must be feverish,” he said to himself; “after all, it is rather dangerous to take a cold bath when one is feeling so hot.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	feverish	feverish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | I |  |  |  |  | feverish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he |  | himself *= he* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  | after all | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a cold bath |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | present · progressive | one |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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