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title: In my notes on that droll I have pointed out that the pigs were once… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Lambikin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 9

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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."

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

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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.

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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:pg7128:34:9
# text = 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."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
6	droll	droll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	advcl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chinny	chinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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