English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 179

But Foxy-woxy had made two bites at Cocky-locky, and when the first snap only hurt Cocky-locky, but didn't kill him, he called out to Henny-penny.

Who acts: first snap, woxy · What happens: make, hurt, not kill, call out · To what, where: Foxy woxy, Cocky, woxy, 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 (first snap, woxy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
2	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woxy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Foxy	punct
4	woxy	woxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bites	nummod
8	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Cocky	case
10	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 locky	punct
12	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Cocky	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 called	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 hurt	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snap	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 snap	amod
18	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hurt	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 hurt	advmod
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 called	advcl
21	Cocky	cocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 locky	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Cocky	punct
23	locky	locky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hurt	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kill	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 kill	cc
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 kill	advmod
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hurt	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hurt	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 called	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 penny	case
35	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 penny	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Henny	punct
37	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 called	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		Foxy woxy		Cocky		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bite=Product
2	hurt	past	the first snap				locky property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not kill	past · do-support	the first snap not said here	woxy				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	call out speech: assert	past	woxy		Henny penny			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to penny=Recipient

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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