English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 149

“Certainly,” said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.

Who acts: Henny penny · What happens: say · 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), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 penny	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Henny	punct
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 locky	cc
10	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 locky	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Cocky	punct
12	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 penny	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Henny penny					certainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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