English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 164

And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy: “We're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling.”

Who acts: Henny penny, Turkey lurkey, We, going · What happens: daddle, say, go, tell, fall · To what, where: Goosey poosey, Foxy woxy, sky, 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 (Henny penny, Turkey lurkey, We, going), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 daddles	cc
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 penny	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
4	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daddles	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 locky	punct
6	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 locky	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Cocky	punct
8	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 penny	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ducky	punct
10	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 locky	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Ducky	punct
12	daddles	daddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poosey	punct
14	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 poosey	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Goosey	punct
16	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daddles	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lurkey	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Turkey	punct
21	lurkey	lurkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 daddles	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 woxy	case
24	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 woxy	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Foxy	punct
26	woxy	woxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
30	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 falling	csubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 going	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sky	det
37	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
38	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 falling	aux
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 falling	det
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 a	punct
41	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 daddles	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 daddles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	daddle	present	Henny penny	Goosey poosey		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Turkey lurkey		Foxy woxy	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woxy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	We			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	the sky	the king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient sky=Topic
5	fall in a quote	present · progressive	going			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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