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title: But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl f… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl for me to the palace of the Snow Queen, where her playfellow is. Who acts: you, playfellow. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 72

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But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl for me to the palace of the Snow Queen, where her playfellow is.

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**Who acts:** you, playfellow · **What happens:** make, take, be, use · **To what, where:** good use, little girl, palace, Snow Queen, legs

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, playfellow), 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:pg1597:14:72
# text = But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl for me to the palace of the Snow Queen, where her playfellow is.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | must | you | good use of your legs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this little girl |  | the palace of the Snow Queen |  | for me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | mother's playfellow | the Snow Queen *not said here* |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | your legs |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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