The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 40

‘I am a friend come to call on you,’ answered the voice.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, call, answer · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 call	mark
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 call	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 voice	det
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	I			tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive	I not said here		on you	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past		the voice		tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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