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title: Joyfully he swore whatever the dragon asked of him; then he jumped o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Joyfully he swore whatever the dragon asked of him; then he jumped on his back, and in another instant would have been carried by the strong wings into the castle if the nearest monsters had not happened to awake and hear the noise of talking and swum to the shore to give battle. Who acts: oath, dra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 28

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Joyfully he swore whatever the dragon asked of him; then he jumped on his back, and in another instant would have been carried by the strong wings into the castle if the nearest monsters had not happened to awake and hear the noise of talking and swum to the shore to give battle.

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**Who acts:** oath, dragon, strong wings, nearest monsters, noise · **What happens:** swear, ask, jump, carry, not happen, awake · **To what, where:** whatever, back, instant, noise, shore, battle

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oath, dragon, strong wings, nearest monsters), 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:pg3027:29:28
# text = Joyfully he swore whatever the dragon asked of him; then he jumped on his back, and in another instant would have been carried by the strong wings into the castle if the nearest monsters had not happened to awake and hear the noise of talking and swum to the shore to give battle.
1	Joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	swum	swim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
55	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	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 | oath |  |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the dragon | whatever |  |  |  | of oath | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient |
| 3 | **jump** | past | oath |  |  | oath's back | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 4 | **carry** | would · perfect · passive | the strong wings |  |  | another instant |  | into the castle | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location |
| 5 | **not** **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the nearest monsters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **awake** | to-infinitive | the nearest monsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** | infinitive | the nearest monsters *not said here* | the noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 8 | **talk** | gerund | the noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **swim** | participle | the noise *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 10 | **give** | to-infinitive | the noise *not said here* | battle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |

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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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