--- title: So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lu… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling. Who acts: Henny, 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/pg7439/23/167/) [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/) / 167 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 167 So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling. **Who acts:** Henny, sky · **What happens:** daddle, go, tell, be · **To what, where:** Goosey poosey, 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, 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:pg7439:23:167 # text = So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling. 1 So so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 2 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 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 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 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 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 lurkey lurkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 Foxy Foxy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 woxy woxy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **daddle** | present | Henny | Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **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 | | 4 | **is** | past | the sky | | | | | fall *property* | 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 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/168/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)