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title: You must bow your heads prettily to that old duck yonder; she is the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You must bow your heads prettily to that old duck yonder; she is the highest born of them all, and has Spanish blood, therefore, she is well off. Who acts: You, duck. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 43

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You must bow your heads prettily to that old duck yonder; she is the highest born of them all, and has Spanish blood, therefore, she is well off.

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**Who acts:** You, duck · **What happens:** bow, be, bear, have · **To what, where:** heads, old duck, Spanish blood

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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, duck), 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:pg27200:201:43
# text = You must bow your heads prettily to that old duck yonder; she is the highest born of them all, and has Spanish blood, therefore, she is well off.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
17	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	off	off	ADV	RB	_	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | must | You | your heads | that old duck |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to duck=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | duck |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of legs *= leg* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | Spanish blood |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | duck |  |  |  |  | off, well *property* | tree rules |

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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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