--- title: So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Goosey-poosey, “Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles?” said Goosey-poosey. Who acts: Henny, you, Cocky, Goosey. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henny, you, Cocky, Goosey), 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:pg7439:23:151 # text = So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Goosey-poosey, “Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles?” said Goosey-poosey. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 along along ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 along along ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 27 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Cocky Cocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 locky locky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 appos _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Ducky ducky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 daddles daddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 44 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go along** | past | Henny | | | | | along *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go along** | past | Henny | | | | | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go along** | past | Henny | | | | | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** | past | Henny | Goosey | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goosey=Co-Agent | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **daddle** *in a quote* | present | Cocky | Henny penny | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Goosey | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/150/) - next →: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/152/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)