Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 14

I forgot what I had come out into the world for; forgot my sausage skewer which I had laid in a crack in the floor--it is lying there still.

Who acts: I, floor · What happens: forget, come out, lay, lie · To what, where: world, sausage skewer, crack

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, floor), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 come	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 forgot	parataxis
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	6 come	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 skewer	nmod:poss
15	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skewer	compound
16	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgot	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laid	nsubj:pass
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 laid	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	aux
20	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 skewer	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 crack	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crack	det
23	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crack	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 lying	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lying	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 lying	aux
30	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 forgot	advcl
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 lying	advmod
32	still	still	ADV	_	30 lying	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	I					tree rules
2	come out	past · perfect			the world		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	forget	past	I not said here	my sausage skewer				tree rules
4	lay	past · perfect · passive		my sausage skewer	a crack in the floor			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in crack=Destination
5	lie	present · progressive	floor		there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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