The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 27

What oath would he not have taken so as to clasp his wife and child in is arms?

Who acts: oath · What happens: not take, clasp, be · To what, where: arms

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 oath	det
2	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 taken	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 clasp	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 clasp	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 clasp	mark
11	clasp	clasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arms	nmod:poss
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 child	cc
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	13 wife	case
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 arms	cop
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clasp	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not take	would · perfect	what oath		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	clasp	to-infinitive	what oath not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present		oath's wife and child's arms	tree rules

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.

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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