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title: ‘Let him come with me and be my comrade, and he shall never be slain… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let him come with me and be my comrade, and he shall never be slain unless I am slain also.’ Who acts: you, Three, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 98

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‘Let him come with me and be my comrade, and he shall never be slain unless I am slain also.’

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**Who acts:** you, Three, I · **What happens:** let, come, be, not slay · **To what, where:** Three, comrade

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Three, 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:pg3454:38:98
# text = ‘Let him come with me and be my comrade, and he shall never be slain unless I am slain also.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | Three *not said here* | my comrade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **slay** | shall · passive |  | Three |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | unless slain | 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 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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