The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 57

I have brought you a present of some eggs that I picked up in a farmyard on my way here.’

Who acts: I · What happens: bring, pick up · To what, where: present, you, eggs, farmyard

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 present	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 picked	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 picked	nsubj
12	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eggs	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picked	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 farmyard	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 farmyard	det
16	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picked	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picked	obl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 way	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present · perfect	I	a present of some eggs	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination present=Theme
2	pick up	past	I	some eggs		a farmyard		on my way	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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 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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