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title: For even if you should catch a fish, I have no fire to cook it with.” — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For even if you should catch a fish, I have no fire to cook it with.” Who acts: you, I, fire. 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 48

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For even if you should catch a fish, I have no fire to cook it with.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, fire · **What happens:** catch, have, cook · **To what, where:** fish, fire

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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 (you, I, fire), 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:pg3282:11:48
# text = For even if you should catch a fish, I have no fire to cook it with.”
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you | a fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | no fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cook** | to-infinitive | no fire *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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