English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 177

Then Ducky-daddles waddled down, and “Hrumph,” snapped Foxy-woxy, and Ducky-daddles' head was off and Ducky-daddles was thrown alongside Turkey-lurkey and Goosey-poosey.

Who acts: Hrumph · What happens: daddle, waddle down, snap off, throw · To what, where: Foxy woxy, Ducky daddles, Turkey lurkey

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 (Hrumph), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 daddles	advmod
2	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daddles	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ducky	punct
4	daddles	daddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	waddled	waddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 daddles	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 waddled	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snapped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 snapped	cc
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Hrumph	punct
10	Hrumph	Hrumph	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 snapped	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Hrumph	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Hrumph	punct
13	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 daddles	parataxis
14	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 woxy	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Foxy	punct
16	woxy	woxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snapped	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 off	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 off	cc
19	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daddles	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Ducky	punct
21	daddles	daddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 head	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 daddles	case
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 off	compound
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 off	cop
25	off	off	ADP	_	13 snapped	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrown	cc
27	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daddles	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Ducky	punct
29	daddles	daddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thrown	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thrown	aux:pass
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 off	conj
32	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	35 lurkey	case
33	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 lurkey	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Turkey	punct
35	lurkey	lurkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrown	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 poosey	cc
37	Goosey	goosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 poosey	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Goosey	punct
39	poosey	poosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lurkey	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 daddles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	daddle	present				then	tree rules
2	waddle down	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snap off	past	Hrumph	Foxy woxy			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woxy=Theme
4	throw	past · passive		Ducky daddles	Turkey lurkey and Goosey poosey		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme alongside lurkey=Destination

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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