The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 83

‘But if ever you fall into any need or trouble,’ said the elder, ‘call me thrice, and I will come and help you; only you must not call me until you are in the utmost need.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: fall, say, call, come, help, not call · To what, where: need, elder, me, you, utmost need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	6 fall	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fall	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 ever	mark
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 fall	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 need	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 need	det
9	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 trouble	cc
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elder	det
16	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
19	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 call	obj
21	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 call	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 call	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 help	cc
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 help	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 call	punct
31	only	only	ADV	_	35 call	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 call	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 call	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 call	advmod
35	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 call	obj
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	43 need	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 need	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 need	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 need	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 need	det
42	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 need	amod
43	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 call	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	present	you				into any need or trouble result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into need=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	the elder				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent elder=Topic
3	call	infinitive			me		thrice property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	come	future	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	infinitive	I not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
6	not call	must	you		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	is	present	you			the utmost need		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 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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