---
title: So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king the sky was a-falling. Who acts: sky. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/150/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 150

# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 150

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sky · **What happens:** go, tell, be · **To what, where:** king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:23:150
# text = So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	locky	locky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Ducky	ducky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	daddles	daddle	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | the king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | fall *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/149/)
- next →: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/151/)
- ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)