English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 166
“Why certainly, Foxy-woxy,” said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
Who acts: Foxy woxy · What happens: say, daddle · To what, where: 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 (Foxy woxy), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 certainly | advmod |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woxy | punct |
| 5 | Foxy | foxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woxy | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Foxy | punct |
| 7 | woxy | woxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woxy | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 woxy | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Henny | punct |
| 13 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Henny | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cocky | punct |
| 15 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Henny | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cocky | punct |
| 17 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daddles | punct |
| 19 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daddles | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ducky | punct |
| 21 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 locky | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 poosey | punct |
| 23 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 poosey | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Goosey | punct |
| 25 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daddles | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lurkey | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lurkey | cc |
| 28 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lurkey | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Turkey | punct |
| 30 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Foxy woxy | certainly, locky property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | daddle | present | Foxy woxy 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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