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title: I forgot what I had come out into the world for; forgot my sausage s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 14

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:181:14
# text = 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.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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