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title: Let us swear vengeance, and vow that wherever and whenever we shall… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us swear vengeance, and vow that wherever and whenever we shall meet one of her sex, she shall die at our hands.’ Who acts: you, us, we, girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 21

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Let us swear vengeance, and vow that wherever and whenever we shall meet one of her sex, she shall die at our hands.’

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**Who acts:** you, us, we, girl · **What happens:** let, swear, vow, meet, die, sex · **To what, where:** us, vengeance, one, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. 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, we, girl), 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:pg540:41:21
# text = Let us swear vengeance, and vow that wherever and whenever we shall meet one of her sex, she shall die at our hands.’
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	vow	vow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	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* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | infinitive | us *not said here* | vengeance |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Eventuality |
| 3 | **vow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | shall | we | one of girl's sex |  |  |  | whenever, wherever *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **die** | shall | girl |  |  | our hands |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **sex** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom sex «act transitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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