The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 49

‘I am a friend come to visit you, and to have some of your good cabbage for my dinner.’

Who acts: I · What happens: come, visit, have · To what, where: you, some

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	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 visit	mark
8	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 visit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 cabbage	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cabbage	nmod:poss
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cabbage	amod
18	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 some	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 dinner	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dinner	nmod:poss
21	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cabbage	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	I		tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	some	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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