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title: I swore to these articles with great cheerfulness, whereupon my chai… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I swore to these articles with great cheerfulness, whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 36

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I swore to these articles with great cheerfulness, whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** swear, unlock, be · **To what, where:** chains, full liberty

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:45:36
# text = I swore to these articles with great cheerfulness, whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unlocked	unlock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to this articles with great cheerfulness | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **unlock** | past · passive |  | my chains |  |  |  | immediately, whereupon *property* | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  | full liberty |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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