Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 39

It seemed to her as though they were swimming about in the goblet, and she forgot to sing the psalm, forgot to say the "Lord's Prayer."

Who acts: It, figures, Karen · What happens: seem, swim, forget, not sing, not say · To what, where: Karen, psalm, Prayer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, figures, Karen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 swimming	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swimming	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swimming	aux
9	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 goblet	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 goblet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goblet	det
13	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forgot	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forgot	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forgot	nsubj
17	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sing	mark
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forgot	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 psalm	det
21	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forgot	punct
23	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forgot	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 forgot	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Prayer	det
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Prayer	punct
28	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Prayer	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Lord	case
30	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 say	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 forgot	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		Karen		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	swim	past · progressive	figures = figure			about the goblet	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about goblet=Trajectory
3	forget	past	Karen				tree rules
4	not sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Karen not said here	the psalm			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme
5	forget	past	Karen not said here				tree rules
6	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Karen not said here	Lord's Prayer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic

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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