The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 98

‘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 · What happens: let, come, be, not slay · To what, where: Three, comrade

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.

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 comrade	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 comrade	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 comrade	nmod:poss
10	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slain	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slain	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slain	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 slain	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 slain	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 slain	aux:pass
17	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Let	advcl
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	21 slain	case
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 slain	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	cop
21	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slain	obl
22	also	also	ADV	_	17 slain	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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 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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