The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 96

The stick I shall keep for myself, so that I can fly to you if ever you have need of me.’

Who acts: stick, I, you · What happens: keep, fly, have, need · To what, where: you, need, me

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, I, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 myself	case
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fly	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 fly	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fly	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 fly	obl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 have	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	advcl
20	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 need	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	shall	the stick				for myself	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fly	can	I		you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	need of me		ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	need			me				nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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