Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 40

It is a dangerous game, for one can easily catch cold and die from fever, and both of these are dead already."

Who acts: two, one, both · What happens: be, catch, die · To what, where: dangerous game, cold, fever

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, one, both), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 catch	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 catch	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	11 catch	advmod
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 game	conj
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 catch	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 die	cc
14	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 fever	case
16	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dead	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dead	cc
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 dead	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 these	case
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 both	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	cop
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 catch	parataxis
24	already	already	ADV	_	23 dead	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	two	a dangerous game			tree rules
2	catch	can	one	cold		easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
3	die	present	one not said here		fever		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fever=Causer
4	is	present	both			dead property	tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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