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title: When the men inside have held counsel together, they will come to fe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the men inside have held counsel together, they will come to fetch thee to thy death, and they will be much grieved not to find thee. Who acts: men, thy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85

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When the men inside have held counsel together, they will come to fetch thee to thy death, and they will be much grieved not to find thee.

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**Who acts:** men, thy · **What happens:** hold, come, fetch, grieve, not find, die · **To what, where:** men, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, thy), 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:pg3454:30:85
# text = When the men inside have held counsel together, they will come to fetch thee to thy death, and they will be much grieved not to find thee.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · perfect · passive |  | the men |  |  |  | together *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme counsel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | future | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | to thy death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **grieve** | future · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **find** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic |
| 6 | **die** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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