English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 170
But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey: “This is the short way to the king's palace you'll soon get there if you follow me.
Who acts: Foxy woxy, This, Henny · What happens: say, daddle, be, get, follow · To what, where: Turkey lurkey, Henny, Goosey poosey, short way, Foxy woxy · 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, This, Henny), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | Foxy | Foxy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woxy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Foxy | punct |
| 4 | woxy | woxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Henny | case |
| 7 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Henny | punct |
| 9 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Henny | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cocky | punct |
| 11 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Henny | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cocky | punct |
| 13 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 daddles | punct |
| 15 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daddles | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ducky | punct |
| 17 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 locky | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 poosey | punct |
| 19 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 poosey | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Goosey | punct |
| 21 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daddles | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lurkey | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lurkey | cc |
| 24 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lurkey | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Turkey | punct |
| 26 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 way | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 way | punct |
| 29 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 way | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 way | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 palace | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 palace | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 king | case |
| 38 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 get | obl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 get | nsubj |
| 40 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | aux |
| 41 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 get | advmod |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 43 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 get | advmod |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 follow | mark |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 follow | nsubj |
| 46 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | advcl |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 follow | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Foxy woxy | Turkey lurkey | Henny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to henny=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | daddle | present | Foxy woxy not said here | Goosey poosey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | This | the short way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | future | Henny | the short way not said here | there | to the king's palace; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | follow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Henny | Foxy woxy = woxy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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