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title: We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as to keep these 'sen' people at a great distance." Who acts: We, elbow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 12

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We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as to keep these 'sen' people at a great distance."

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**Who acts:** We, elbow · **What happens:** put, make, point, keep · **To what, where:** arms akimbo, sen people

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, elbow), 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:pg27200:18:12
# text = We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as to keep these 'sen' people at a great distance."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	akimbo	akimbo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | must | We | our arms akimbo |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent akimbo=Goal |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** | past | the elbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | this sen people |  |  |  | at a great distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme at distance=Location |

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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:** «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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