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title: Come, now, set one foot here and another there, and feel your way wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, now, set one foot here and another there, and feel your way with your fore-feet. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 36

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Come, now, set one foot here and another there, and feel your way with your fore-feet.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, set, feel · **To what, where:** one foot, way

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:52:36
# text = Come, now, set one foot here and another there, and feel your way with your fore-feet.
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	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one foot |  | here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your way |  |  |  | with your fore feet | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:** «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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