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title: Jack, none the wiser, next morning hitched the worthless table on to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack, none the wiser, next morning hitched the worthless table on to his back and carried it home. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 29

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Jack, none the wiser, next morning hitched the worthless table on to his back and carried it home.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** hitch, carry · **To what, where:** worthless table, table

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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 (Jack), 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:pg7439:45:29
# text = Jack, none the wiser, next morning hitched the worthless table on to his back and carried it home.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	1	appos	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	hitched	hitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hitch** | past | Jack | the worthless table |  |  | morning | on Jack's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient on back=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Jack *not said here* | table |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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