--- title: So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was fal… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was falling. Who acts: Henny penny, sky. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/144/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/) / 144 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 144 So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was falling. **Who acts:** Henny penny, sky · **What happens:** go, tell, fall · **To what, where:** king · **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 penny, sky), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:23:144 # text = So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was falling. 1 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 Cocky Cocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 locky locky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Henny penny | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Henny penny *not said here* | | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 3 | **fall** | past · progressive | the sky | the king *not said here* | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient king=Result | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/145/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)