English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 165
“Oh! but this is not the way to the king, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey,” says Foxy-woxy; “I know the proper way; shall I show it you?”
Who acts: this, Cocky, Foxy · What happens: not be, daddle, say, know, show · To what, where: way, Goosey poosey, proper way, you · 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 (this, Cocky, Foxy), 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 | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 way | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 way | cc |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 way | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 penny | punct |
| 14 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 penny | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Henny | punct |
| 16 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cocky | punct |
| 18 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 locky | punct |
| 20 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cocky | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daddles | punct |
| 22 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 daddles | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ducky | punct |
| 24 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Cocky | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 poosey | punct |
| 26 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 poosey | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 poosey | punct |
| 28 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daddles | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 lurkey | cc |
| 30 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 lurkey | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Turkey | punct |
| 32 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 poosey | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 poosey | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 daddles | punct |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | Foxy | Foxy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Foxy | punct |
| 38 | woxy | woxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Foxy | list |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 know | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 know | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 know | nsubj |
| 42 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 says | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 way | det |
| 44 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 way | amod |
| 45 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 know | obj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 show | punct |
| 47 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 show | aux |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 show | nsubj |
| 49 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 says | parataxis |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 show | obj |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 show | iobj |
| 52 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 49 show | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | this | the way | to the king and Henny penny | tree rules | |||
| 2 | daddle in a quote | present | Cocky not said here | Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | Foxy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | Foxy | the proper way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | show in a quote | shall | Foxy | way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic |
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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