English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 173

So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey.

Who acts: Foxy woxy, woxy · What happens: go, not go, turn round, wait · To what, where: cave, Henny Penny

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, woxy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1068): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woxy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Foxy	punct
4	woxy	woxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cave	nmod:poss
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 go	advmod
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wait	mark
21	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 Henny	case
23	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Penny	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Henny	punct
25	Penny	Penny	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wait	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 locky	punct
27	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 locky	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Cocky	punct
29	locky	locky	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Penny	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 daddles	punct
31	Ducky	Ducky	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 daddles	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Ducky	punct
33	daddles	daddles	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Penny	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 poosey	punct
35	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 poosey	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Goosey	punct
37	poosey	poosey	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Penny	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lurkey	cc
39	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 lurkey	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Turkey	punct
41	lurkey	lurkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Penny	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Foxy woxy		woxy's cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
2	not go	past · do-support	woxy			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn round	past	woxy not said here			round property	tree rules
4	wait	to-infinitive	woxy not said here	Henny Penny and Cocky locky and Ducky daddles and Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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