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title: ‘I am a friend come to visit you, and to have some of your good cabb… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am a friend come to visit you, and to have some of your good cabbage for my dinner.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 49

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:13:49
# text = ‘I am a friend come to visit you, and to have some of your good cabbage for my dinner.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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