English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 178
Then Cocky-locky strutted down into the cave and he hadn't gone far when “Snap, Hrumph!” went Foxy-woxy and Cocky-locky was thrown alongside of Turkey-lurkey, Goosey-poosey and Ducky-daddles.
Who acts: Cocky, Snap · What happens: strut down, not go, go, throw, daddle · To what, where: cave, Foxy, woxy, 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 (Cocky, Snap), 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 | 5 strutted | advmod |
| 2 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 strutted | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cocky | punct |
| 4 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strutted | amod |
| 5 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 strutted | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strutted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gone | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gone | advmod |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 strutted | conj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 gone | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 went | advmod |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Snap | punct |
| 18 | Snap | Snap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hrumph | punct |
| 20 | Hrumph | Hrumph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Snap | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hrumph | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Snap | punct |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thrown | advcl |
| 24 | Foxy | Foxy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Foxy | punct |
| 26 | woxy | woxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 locky | cc |
| 28 | Cocky | cocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 locky | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cocky | punct |
| 30 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woxy | conj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thrown | aux:pass |
| 32 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gone | conj |
| 33 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 37 lurkey | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 lurkey | case |
| 35 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 lurkey | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Turkey | punct |
| 37 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thrown | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 poosey | punct |
| 39 | Goosey | Goosey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 poosey | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 poosey | punct |
| 41 | poosey | poosey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thrown | advcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 daddles | cc |
| 43 | Ducky | ducky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 daddles | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Ducky | punct |
| 45 | daddles | daddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 poosey | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strutted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strut down | participle | Cocky | the cave | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | Cocky | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Snap | Foxy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foxy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | past · passive | woxy | Turkey lurkey | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme alongside lurkey=Destination | ||||
| 5 | daddle | present | 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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