English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 141

I'm going to tell the king the sky's a-falling,” says Henny-penny.

Who acts: I, going · What happens: go, tell, fall, say · To what, where: sky, king, Henny penny · 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 (I, going), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 falling	csubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 falling	aux
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 falling	det
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 a	punct
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 falling	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 falling	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 penny	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Henny	punct
19	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	the sky	the king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient sky=Topic
3	fall	present · progressive	going			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Henny penny		tree rules

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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