--- 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 Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey: “Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey?” Who acts: Henny, Fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/163/) [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/) / 163 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 163 So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey: “Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey?” **Who acts:** Henny, Foxy woxy, Henny penny · **What happens:** go along, meet, say, daddle, go · **To what, where:** Foxy, Henny penny, Goosey poosey · **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, Foxy woxy, Henny penny), 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:pg7439:23:163 # text = So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey: “Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey?” 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 Foxy Foxy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 woxy woxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 Foxy Foxy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 woxy woxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 Cocky Cocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 locky locky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 Ducky ducky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 daddles daddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 lurkey lurkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 49 “ " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 53 advmod _ _ 51 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 Cocky Cocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 60 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 59 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 locky locky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 Ducky ducky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 daddles daddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 67 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 68 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 72 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 73 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 lurkey lurkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 75 ? ? PUNCT . _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 ” " PUNCT '' _ 74 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 | Foxy | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foxy=Co-Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Foxy woxy | | Henny penny | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to penny=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **daddle** | present | Foxy woxy *not said here* | Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Henny penny *= penny* | Henny penny | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **daddle** *in a quote* | present | Henny penny *= penny* *not said here* | Goosey poosey | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/164/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)