English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 154
“Certainly,” said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles.
Who acts: Henny · What happens: say, be · 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), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Henny | punct |
| 8 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Henny | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cocky | punct |
| 10 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Henny | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cocky | punct |
| 12 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Ducky | cc |
| 14 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 locky | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ducky | punct |
| 16 | daddles | daddle | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 locky | cop |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Henny | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | locky property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | 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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