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title: Come, now, use your legs, and let me see how well you can behave. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, now, use your legs, and let me see how well you can behave. Who acts: you, me. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 42

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Come, now, use your legs, and let me see how well you can behave.

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** come, use, let, see, behave · **To what, where:** legs, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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:pg27200:201:42
# text = Come, now, use your legs, and let me see how well you can behave.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your legs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **behave** | can | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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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