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title: So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turne… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey. Who acts: Foxy woxy, woxy. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the p
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 173

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So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey.

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**Who acts:** Foxy woxy, woxy · **What happens:** go, not go, turn round, wait · **To what, where:** cave, Henny Penny

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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 (Foxy woxy, woxy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:1068`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:23:173
# text = So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Foxy	Foxy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	woxy	woxy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Cocky	Cocky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	locky	locky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Ducky	Ducky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	daddles	daddles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Goosey	Goosey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	poosey	poosey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	lurkey	lurkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Foxy woxy |  |  | woxy's cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | woxy |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn round** | past | woxy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive | woxy *not said here* | Henny Penny and Cocky locky and Ducky daddles and Goosey poosey and Turkey lurkey |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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