--- title: And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and al… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the pictures, and as Karen knelt before the altar, and raised the cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes, and they seemed to swim in it; and she forgot to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray, “Our Father in Heaven!” --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/) / 37 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 37 And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the pictures, and as Karen knelt before the altar, and raised the cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes, and they seemed to swim in it; and she forgot to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray, “Our Father in Heaven!” **Who acts:** people, Karen · **What happens:** look, kneel, raise, think, seem, swim · **To what, where:** altar, cup, lips, church, psalm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (people, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:27:37 # text = And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the pictures, and as Karen knelt before the altar, and raised the cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes, and they seemed to swim in it; and she forgot to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray, “Our Father in Heaven!” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knelt kneel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ _ 57 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 psalm psalm NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 62 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 “ " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 vocative _ _ 69 in in ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ! ! PUNCT . _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | all people in the church | | | | | at Karen's red shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | | 2 | **kneel** | past | Karen | | | the altar | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location | | 3 | **raise** | past | | the cup | | Karen's lips | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to lip=Destination | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Karen | | | | | of the red shoes | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | past | people | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **swim** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | church | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory | | 7 | **forget** | past | Karen | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | Karen's psalm | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | | 9 | **forget** | past | Karen | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **pray** | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/38/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/)