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title: I am becoming another man, all my creases are coming out; you are bu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am becoming another man, all my creases are coming out; you are burning a hole in me! Who acts: I, creases, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 20

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I am becoming another man, all my creases are coming out; you are burning a hole in me!

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**Who acts:** I, creases, you · **What happens:** become, come out, burn · **To what, where:** man, hole

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, creases, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:571`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:6:20
# text = I am becoming another man, all my creases are coming out; you are burning a hole in me!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	creases	crease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · progressive | I | another man |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient man=Result |
| 2 | **come out** | present · progressive | my creases |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | present · progressive | you | a hole |  |  |  | in me | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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