English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 5
_Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have.
Who acts: little pigs, Remarks, kids · What happens: not have, suspect, be, have · To what, where: hair, chinny chin chins, kids
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. 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 (little pigs, Remarks, kids), 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 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suspect | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 5 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pigs | amod |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Remarks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 chins | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chins | nmod:poss |
| 14 | chinny | chinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chins | amod |
| 15 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chins | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 chin | punct |
| 17 | chins | chin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 suspect | nsubj |
| 20 | suspect | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 kids | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kids | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kids | cop |
| 24 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 25 kids | advmod |
| 25 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suspect | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 kids | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 suspect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | little pigs | hair | Remarks's chinny chin chins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 2 | suspect | present | Remarks | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Remarks = remark | kids | originally property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | kids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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