The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 56

‘Just call on me when you want me,’ he said, ‘where-ever you are.

Who acts: you, Jesper · What happens: call, want, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jesper), 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	_	3 call	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 call	advmod
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 call	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 want	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 where-ever	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 where-ever	punct
16	where-ever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 where-ever	advcl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	infinitive			on me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	you	me		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Jesper		wherever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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