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title: “And let us agree that the one who wins shall have the right to kill… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And let us agree that the one who wins shall have the right to kill the other.” Who acts: you, us, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 86

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“And let us agree that the one who wins shall have the right to kill the other.”

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**Who acts:** you, us, one · **What happens:** let, agree, win, have, kill · **To what, where:** us, right, other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, one), 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:pg3282:7:86
# text = “And let us agree that the one who wins shall have the right to kill the other.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **win** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | the one | the right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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