--- title: And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turk… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy: “We're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling.” Who acts: Henny penny, Turkey lurkey, We, going. 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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 penny, Turkey lurkey, We, going), 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:pg7439:23:164 # text = And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy: “We're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 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 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 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 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Ducky ducky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 daddles daddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 lurkey lurkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 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 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 csubj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **daddle** | present | Henny penny | Goosey poosey | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Turkey lurkey | | Foxy woxy | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woxy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | the sky | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient sky=Topic | | 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | present · progressive | going | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/165/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)