English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 147

“Oh! we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling,” said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.

Who acts: we, going, Henny · What happens: go, tell, fall, say · To what, where: sky, 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 (we, going, Henny), 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	_	6 going	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 going	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 falling	csubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 falling	aux
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 falling	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 a	punct
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 falling	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 falling	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 penny	punct
22	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Henny	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Cocky	cc
24	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Henny	conj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 locky	punct
26	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Henny	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	we			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	we 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 in a quote	present · progressive	going			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	Henny and Cocky			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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