English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 9
“No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.”
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of 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: 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 | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hair | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hair | det |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chin | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chiny | chiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chin | amod |
| 12 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chin | compound |
| 13 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hair | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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