English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 163

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

Who acts: Henny, Foxy woxy, Henny penny · What happens: go along, meet, say, daddle, go · To what, where: Foxy, Henny penny, Goosey poosey · 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, Foxy woxy, 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	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	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 met	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 woxy	punct
21	woxy	woxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Foxy	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
24	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 woxy	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Foxy	punct
26	woxy	woxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 penny	case
29	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 penny	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Henny	punct
31	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 locky	punct
33	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 locky	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Cocky	punct
35	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 daddles	punct
37	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 daddles	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Ducky	punct
39	daddles	daddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 locky	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 poosey	punct
41	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 poosey	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 poosey	punct
43	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 daddles	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lurkey	cc
45	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 lurkey	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 Turkey	punct
47	lurkey	lurkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 poosey	conj
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 going	punct
49	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 going	punct
50	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 going	advmod
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 going	aux
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 going	nsubj
53	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 said	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 penny	punct
55	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 penny	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 Henny	punct
57	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 going	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 locky	punct
59	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 locky	compound
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 Cocky	punct
61	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 going	parataxis
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 daddles	punct
63	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 daddles	amod
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 Ducky	punct
65	daddles	daddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 locky	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 poosey	punct
67	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 poosey	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 Goosey	punct
69	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 daddles	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 lurkey	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 lurkey	cc
72	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 lurkey	compound
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	74 lurkey	punct
74	lurkey	lurkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	parataxis
75	?	?	PUNCT	_	74 lurkey	punct
76	”	"	PUNCT	_	74 lurkey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to 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	Foxy			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foxy=Co-Agent
5	say speech: ask	past	Foxy woxy		Henny penny		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to penny=Recipient clause=Topic
6	daddle	present	Foxy woxy not said here	Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey			tree rules
7	go in a quote	present · progressive	Henny penny = penny	Henny penny			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	daddle in a quote	present	Henny penny = penny not said here	Goosey poosey			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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