English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 28

That night he fetched down from his attic a table very like that of Jack, and exchanged the two.

Who acts: publican · What happens: fetch down, exchange · To what, where: attic table, two

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (publican), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetched	nsubj
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 fetched	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 table	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 table	nmod:poss
8	attic	attic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 table	amod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obl
11	very	very	ADV	_	13 that	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 table	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Jack	case
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 that	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 exchanged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 exchanged	cc
18	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fetched	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 two	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 exchanged	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch down	past	publican			publican's attic table like that	night	down property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from table=Source
2	exchange	past	publican not said here	the two					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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.

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