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title: 'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow,' answered Gorla. ' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow,' answered Gorla. ' Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 90

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'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow,' answered Gorla. '

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** vow, keep, answer · **To what, where:** vow, Gorla

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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 (you, your), 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:pg3027:29:90
# text = 'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow,' answered Gorla. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	vowed	vow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | must | you | your vow |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Gorla |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gorla=Eventuality |
| 4 | **vow** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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