English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 144
So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was falling.
Who acts: Henny penny, sky · What happens: go, tell, fall · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 penny | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Henny | punct |
| 4 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 locky | cc |
| 6 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 locky | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cocky | punct |
| 8 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 penny | conj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 falling | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 falling | aux |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 king | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Henny penny | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Henny penny not said here | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · progressive | the sky | the king not said here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient king=Result |
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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