The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 64

If you should ever need my help, throw it into the river, and I will come to your aid at once.’

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: need, throw, come, help · To what, where: help, river, aid

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. 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, my), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 need	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 throw	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 help	nmod:poss
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct
9	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throw	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 throw	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 aid	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 aid	nmod:poss
21	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need a condition, not said to happen	should	you	my help		ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
2	throw	imperative	you not said here	help			into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result
3	come	future	I		your aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
4	help		my					nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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