--- title: Forgetting his promise, forgetting it even on the very first evening… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Forgetting his promise, forgetting it even on the very first evening, he rushed towards her, while she continued to beckon to him and to smile. Who acts: voice, fairy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/226/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/) / 226 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 226 Forgetting his promise, forgetting it even on the very first evening, he rushed towards her, while she continued to beckon to him and to smile. **Who acts:** voice, fairy · **What happens:** forget, rush, continue, beckon, smile, promise · **To what, where:** promise, voice This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, fairy), 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:pg27200:140:226 # text = Forgetting his promise, forgetting it even on the very first evening, he rushed towards her, while she continued to beckon to him and to smile. 1 Forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 beckon beckon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 smile smile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | gerund | voice *not said here* | voice's promise | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **forget** | gerund | voice *not said here* | promise | | | evening | | tree rules | | 3 | **rush** | past | voice | | | | | towards fairy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination | | 4 | **continue** | past | fairy | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **beckon** | to-infinitive | fairy *not said here* | | voice | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **smile** | to-infinitive | fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **promise** | | voice | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/227/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)