English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 160
Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles and Goosey-poosey?” said Turkey-lurkey.
Who acts: Henny penny, Goosey poosey · What happens: daddle, 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, Goosey poosey), 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 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 penny | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Henny | punct |
| 3 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daddles | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 locky | punct |
| 5 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 locky | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cocky | punct |
| 7 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penny | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ducky | punct |
| 9 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 locky | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ducky | punct |
| 11 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 13 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 poosey | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 poosey | punct |
| 15 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 poosey | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 poosey | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 daddles | parataxis |
| 19 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lurkey | punct |
| 21 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Turkey | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 daddles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daddle | present | Henny penny | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Goosey poosey | 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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