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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 103

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Why it bulges all down the back, as if I had a hump, and it is so tight across the chest that I expect it to burst every time I breathe.

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**Who acts:** coat, I, chest · **What happens:** bulge, have, be, expect, burst, breathe · **To what, where:** hump, chest, time

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, I, chest), 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:pg3282:16:103
# text = Why it bulges all down the back, as if I had a hump, and it is so tight across the chest that I expect it to burst every time I breathe.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bulges	bulge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
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	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bulge** | present | coat |  |  |  |  | down the back | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | a hump |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | coat |  |  | the chest |  | tight *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **expect** | present | I | the chest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **burst** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chest *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **breathe** | present | I | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=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:** «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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