English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 167

So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.

Who acts: Henny, sky · What happens: daddle, go, tell, be · To what, where: Goosey poosey, 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, sky), 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	_	12 daddles	advmod
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daddles	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
4	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Henny	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cocky	punct
6	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henny	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Cocky	punct
8	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Henny	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 locky	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	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lurkey	punct
18	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lurkey	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Turkey	punct
20	lurkey	lurkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poosey	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 woxy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 woxy	cc
23	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 woxy	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Foxy	punct
25	woxy	woxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daddles	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 went	advmod
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 woxy	acl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sky	det
33	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 falling	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 falling	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 falling	det
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 a	punct
37	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 tell	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 daddles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	daddle	present	Henny	Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey			tree rules
2	go	past					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	past	the sky			fall property	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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