--- title: But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goose… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey: “This is the short way to the king's palace you'll soon get there if you follow me. Who acts: Foxy woxy, This, Henny. 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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 (Foxy woxy, This, Henny), 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:pg7439:23:170 # text = But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey: “This is the short way to the king's palace you'll soon get there if you follow me. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Foxy Foxy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 woxy woxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Cocky Cocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 locky locky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Ducky ducky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 daddles daddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 Goosey Goosey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 poosey poosey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 lurkey lurkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 42 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Foxy woxy | Turkey lurkey | Henny | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to henny=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **daddle** | present | Foxy woxy *not said here* | Goosey poosey | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the short way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | future | Henny | the short way *not said here* | | there | | to the king's palace; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | | 5 | **follow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Henny | Foxy woxy *= woxy* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/169/) - next →: [sentence 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/171/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)