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title: They took and changed his apples for theirs, and off to London as fa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They took and changed his apples for theirs, and off to London as fast as they could, and left the poor fellow sleeping. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 69

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They took and changed his apples for theirs, and off to London as fast as they could, and left the poor fellow sleeping.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** take, change, leave · **To what, where:** apples, poor fellow sleeping

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:27:69
# text = They took and changed his apples for theirs, and off to London as fast as they could, and left the poor fellow sleeping.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | Jack's apples |  |  |  | for brothers *= brother* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent apple=Theme for their=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | the poor fellow sleeping |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeping=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:** «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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