English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 172
“Why of course, certainly, without doubt, why not?” said Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
Who acts: Henny · What happens: not say, daddle · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 certainly | punct |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 Why | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 certainly | punct |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 doubt | case |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 certainly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 said | advmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 said | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 not | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 not | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 doubt | parataxis |
| 16 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Penny | punct |
| 18 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Henny | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Cocky | punct |
| 20 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Henny | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 locky | punct |
| 22 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Henny | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 daddles | punct |
| 24 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daddles | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ducky | punct |
| 26 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 locky | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 poosey | punct |
| 28 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 poosey | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Goosey | punct |
| 30 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Henny | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lurkey | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lurkey | cc |
| 33 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 lurkey | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Turkey | punct |
| 35 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Henny | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | Henny Penny and Cocky and Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | daddle | present | Henny Penny and Cocky and Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey not said here | 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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