The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 32

And when you are in need yourself, call upon me, and I will come to you.’

Who acts: you, need, I · What happens: be, call, come · To what, where: need, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, need, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 call	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 need	case
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 call	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 call	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 call	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		need		tree rules
2	call	infinitive	need			upon me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	future	I	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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