Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 42

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 behave	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 behave	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 behave	aux
17	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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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