The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 118

When you call me, if it is from the depths of the sea, I will come.’

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

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, friend, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 call	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 depths	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 depths	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 depths	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 depths	cop
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 depths	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 depths	det
11	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 depths	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct
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	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	you	me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	friend		the depths	of the sea	tree rules
3	come	future	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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