More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 1

Jack readily undertook the task, and bidding the king lie down, he pretended to fish in his pocket, having another fish concealed ready in his hand, and giving him a sly prick with a needle, he held up the fish, and showed it to the king.

Who acts: Jack, king, fish · What happens: undertake, bid, lie down, pretend, have, conceal · To what, where: task, pocket, fish, sly prick, king, prick

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, king, fish), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 undertook	nsubj
2	readily	readily	ADV	_	3 undertook	advmod
3	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 task	det
5	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undertook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bidding	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bidding	cc
8	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 undertook	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	nsubj
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bidding	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pretended	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pretended	nsubj
15	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undertook	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 fish	case
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pretended	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pocket	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pocket	nmod:poss
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pretended	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 having	punct
22	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 pretended	advcl
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 fish	det
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 having	obj
25	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 having	xcomp
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 concealed	amod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ready	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 held	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 held	cc
32	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 held	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 giving	iobj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 prick	det
35	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 prick	amod
36	prick	prick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 giving	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 needle	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 needle	det
39	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 prick	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 giving	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 held	nsubj
42	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undertook	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 held	compound:prt
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fish	det
45	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 held	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 showed	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 showed	cc
48	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undertook	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 showed	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 king	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 king	det
52	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 showed	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	Jack	the task			readily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
2	bid	gerund	Jack not said here					tree rules
3	lie down	present	the king				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pretend	past	king			king's pocket	to fish	tree rules
5	have	gerund	king not said here	another fish				tree rules
6	conceal	participle	another fish not said here					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	give	gerund	Jack not said here	a sly prick	king		with a needle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient prick=Theme
8	hold up	past	Jack	the fish				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme
9	show	past	Jack not said here	prick	the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to king=Recipient

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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