The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 68

For three days Hassebu remembered his promise to the King of the Snakes, and did not go near the baths; then came a morning so hot he could hardly breathe, and he forgot all about it.

Who acts: Hassebu · What happens: remember, not go, come, breathe, forget, promise · To what, where: promise, baths

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassebu), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remembered	obl
4	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	nsubj
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 promise	nmod:poss
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 promise	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Snakes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Snakes	det
13	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 King	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 remembered	conj
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 baths	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 baths	det
21	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 came	advmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl:unmarked
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 hot	advmod
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 came	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 breathe	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 breathe	aux
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 breathe	advmod
32	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hot	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forgot	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 forgot	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 forgot	nsubj
36	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	conj
37	all	all	ADV	_	36 forgot	advmod
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 forgot	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Hassebu	Hassebu's promise		day	to the King of the Snakes	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent promise=Theme to king=be'
2	not go	past · do-support	Hassebu not said here		the baths			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near bath=Location
3	come	past	Hassebu not said here			then; morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	breathe	could	Hassebu				hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	forget	past	Hassebu				about promise; all property	tree rules
6	promise		Hassebu				to the King of the Snakes	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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