English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 151

So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Goosey-poosey, “Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles?” said Goosey-poosey.

Who acts: Henny, you, Cocky, Goosey · What happens: go along, meet, go, daddle, say · To what, where: Goosey, 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 (Henny, you, Cocky, Goosey), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 met	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
19	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 met	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 poosey	punct
21	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Goosey	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
24	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 going	advmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 met	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	27 going	fixed
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 penny	punct
30	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 penny	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Henny	punct
32	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 daddles	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Cocky	punct
34	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 daddles	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 locky	punct
36	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Cocky	appos
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Ducky	cc
38	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 locky	conj
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Ducky	punct
40	daddles	daddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 daddles	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 daddles	punct
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 daddles	parataxis
44	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 said	nsubj
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 poosey	punct
46	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Goosey	appos
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Henny		along property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go along	past	Henny		along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go along	past	Henny		along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	Henny	Goosey		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goosey=Co-Agent
5	go in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	daddle in a quote	present	Cocky	Henny penny		tree rules
7	say speech: ask	past	Goosey			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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