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title: _Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Three Little Pigs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 5

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\_Remarks\_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have.

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**Who acts:** little pigs, Remarks, kids · **What happens:** not have, suspect, be, have · **To what, where:** hair, chinny chin chins, kids

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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.

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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:pg7439:64:5
# text = _Remarks_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	chinny	chinny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	chins	chin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	suspect	suspect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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