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title: Two steps forward and one backwards had Rudy to take to keep pace wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two steps forward and one backwards had Rudy to take to keep pace with the others. Who acts: one, Two steps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 26

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Two steps forward and one backwards had Rudy to take to keep pace with the others.

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**Who acts:** one, Two steps · **What happens:** have, take, keep · **To what, where:** Two steps, pace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Two steps), 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:pg27200:61:26
# text = Two steps forward and one backwards had Rudy to take to keep pace with the others.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | one | Two steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Two steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Two steps *not said here* | pace |  |  |  | with the others | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=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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