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title: And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city. Who acts: Hassebu, king, soldiers. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 64

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And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city.

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**Who acts:** Hassebu, king, soldiers · **What happens:** swear, order, take, sight · **To what, where:** soldiers, Hassebu, sight, native city

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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, king, soldiers), 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:pg641:30:64
# text = And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | Hassebu |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **order** | past | the king | King's soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King's soldiers *not said here* | Hassebu |  | sight of King's native city |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hassebu=Value in sight=Location |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | King's native city |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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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