--- title: If I ever need your help again I will not fail to ask you for it.” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: If I ever need your help again I will not fail to ask you for it.” Who acts: I, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/) / 67 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 67 If I ever need your help again I will not fail to ask you for it.” **Who acts:** I, your · **What happens:** need, not fail, ask, help · **To what, where:** help, you This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:4:67 # text = If I ever need your help again I will not fail to ask you for it.” 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | your help | | | ever; again | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 2 | **not** **fail** | future | I | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **help** | | your | | | | | | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/)