The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 3

“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 · What happens: be, say, take, feel · To what, where: himself, cold bath · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 feverish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 feverish	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feverish	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 feverish	cop
5	feverish	feverish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feverish	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 feverish	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feverish	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dangerous	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 dangerous	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 dangerous	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dangerous	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dangerous	cop
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 dangerous	advmod
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feverish	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dangerous	csubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bath	det
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bath	amod
25	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 feeling	mark
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 feeling	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 feeling	aux
29	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 take	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 hot	advmod
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feeling	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feverish	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 feverish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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: «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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