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title: Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children d… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they may hear thee and tremble! Who acts: proud vain children, thou, legs. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 61

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Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they may hear thee and tremble!

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**Who acts:** proud vain children, thou, legs · **What happens:** dwell, knock, hear, tremble · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud vain children, thou, legs), 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:pg1597:27:61
# text = Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they may hear thee and tremble!
1	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present | proud vain children |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | may | legs *= leg* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tremble** | infinitive | legs *= leg* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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