English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 150

So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.

Who acts: sky · What happens: go, tell, be · 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 (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	_	8 locky	advmod
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 locky	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
4	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Henny	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cocky	punct
6	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henny	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Cocky	punct
8	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Ducky	cc
10	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 locky	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Ducky	punct
12	daddles	daddle	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 went	aux:pass
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 locky	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sky	det
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 falling	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 falling	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 falling	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 a	punct
23	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 tell	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 locky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · passive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	the sky		fall property	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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