English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 171
I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.”
Who acts: I, you, Ducky · What happens: go, come, daddle · To what, where: Henny penny, Goosey poosey
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 (I, you, Ducky), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 penny | punct |
| 10 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 penny | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Henny | punct |
| 12 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cocky | punct |
| 14 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 penny | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cocky | punct |
| 16 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 penny | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daddles | punct |
| 18 | Ducky | Ducky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daddles | nsubj |
| 19 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 poosey | punct |
| 21 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 poosey | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Goosey | punct |
| 23 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daddles | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lurkey | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lurkey | cc |
| 26 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lurkey | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Turkey | punct |
| 28 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daddles | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | you | Henny penny | after property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | daddle | present | Ducky | 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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