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title: Come, now, don't turn your toes, a well-bred duckling spreads his fe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, now, don't turn your toes, a well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way; now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" Who acts: you, bred duckling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 45

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Come, now, don't turn your toes, a well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way; now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'"

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**Who acts:** you, bred duckling · **What happens:** come, not turn, breed, spread, bend, say · **To what, where:** toes, feet, neck, quack · **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, bred duckling), 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:pg27200:201:45
# text = Come, now, don't turn your toes, a well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way; now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'"
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	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	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 | **not** **turn** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | your toes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toe=Theme |
| 3 | **breed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread** | present | a bred duckling | child's feet |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme |
| 5 | **bend** | infinitive |  | your neck |  |  | now |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | quack |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quack=Topic |

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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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