English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 136
One day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when--whack!--something hit her upon the head.
Who acts: day Henny penny, something · What happens: pick up, hit · To what, where: corn, cornyard, penny, head
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day Henny penny, something), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 penny | compound |
| 3 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 penny | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Henny | punct |
| 5 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picking | aux |
| 7 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picking | compound:prt |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picking | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cornyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cornyard | det |
| 12 | cornyard | cornyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picking | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 picking | advmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 whack | punct |
| 15 | whack | whack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picking | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 picking | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 hit | punct |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 hit | nsubj |
| 19 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picking | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hit | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hit | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · progressive | day Henny penny | corn | the cornyard | whack obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic | ||
| 2 | hit | past | something | penny | the head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon head=Destination |
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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