Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 9

In my notes on that droll I have pointed out that the pigs were once goats or kids with "hair on their chinny chin chin."

Who acts: I, pigs, my · What happens: droll, point out, be, note · To what, where: notes, goats

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Lambikin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pigs, my), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 notes	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 notes	nmod:poss
3	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 droll	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 droll	obl
6	droll	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pointed	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pointed	aux
9	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 droll	ccomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pointed	compound:prt
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 goats	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pigs	det
13	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 goats	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 goats	cop
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 goats	advmod
16	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pointed	advcl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 kids	cc
18	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 goats	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 hair	case
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 hair	punct
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goats	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 chin	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chin	nmod:poss
24	chinny	chinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chin	compound
25	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chin	compound
26	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hair	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 droll	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 droll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	droll	present			my notes	on that	tree rules
2	point out	present · perfect	I				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the pigs	goats or kids		with hair on Pigs's chin chin; once property	tree rules
4	note		my				nom note «communication 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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