The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 112

I need such people as you about me; but when harvest time comes I will send you home with royal presents.”

Who acts: I, harvest time · What happens: need, come, send · To what, where: such people, you

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, harvest time), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 people	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 people	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 send	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 comes	mark
12	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	compound
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 send	advcl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 send	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 send	aux
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 send	iobj
19	home	home	ADV	_	17 send	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 presents	case
21	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 presents	amod
22	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 send	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	I	such people		as you; about me	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme
2	come	present	harvest time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	future	I		you	with royal presents; home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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