Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 58
"Level your pistols!" cried Jack, "and make smithereens of 'em.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: level, cry, make · To what, where: pistols, smithereens · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. 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.
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Level | punct |
| 2 | Level | level | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pistols | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Level | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Level | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Level | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | smithereens | smithereen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 'em | case |
| 15 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smithereens | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | level in a quote | infinitive | your pistols | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Jack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | smithereens of 'em | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smithereen=Product |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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