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title: But will you swear never to part from it, and to keep it safely abou… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But will you swear never to part from it, and to keep it safely about you always? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 79

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But will you swear never to part from it, and to keep it safely about you always?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** swear, keep · **To what, where:** part

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:14:79
# text = But will you swear never to part from it, and to keep it safely about you always?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | future | you | part |  | part |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | part |  |  |  | about you; always, safely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme about you=Location |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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