More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 142

The shepherd slyly drew the fish out of his pocket and pretending to have caught it, showed it her, and she declared it was the finest she ever saw.

Who acts: shepherd, pond, pocket · What happens: draw, pretend, catch, show, declare, be · To what, where: fish, pocket, pond

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, pond, pocket), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
3	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	4 drew	advmod
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pretending	cc
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pocket	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 caught	mark
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 caught	aux
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 pretending	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showed	punct
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 showed	obj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 showed	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 declared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 declared	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 declared	nsubj
24	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 showed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finest	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finest	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 finest	det
28	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 declared	xcomp
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 saw	advmod
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finest	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the shepherd	the fish		shepherd's pocket		slyly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
2	pretend	gerund	the shepherd not said here						tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive · perfect	the shepherd not said here	pocket					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	show	past	the shepherd not said here	pocket	pond				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient it=Topic
5	declare speech: other	past	pond						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	pocket					fine property	tree rules
7	see	past	pond				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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