English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 137
“Goodness gracious me!” said Henny-penny; “the sky's a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king.”
Who acts: Henny penny, sky · What happens: say, go, fall, tell · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Henny penny, sky), 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 | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 2 | Goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gracious | compound |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gracious | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 penny | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Henny | punct |
| 10 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 going | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 a | punct |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fall | mark |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Henny penny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the sky | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | to-infinitive | the sky not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | Henny penny = penny | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Henny penny = penny not said here | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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