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title: “Up stick and bang them!” exclaimed Jack; whereupon the cudgel leape… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Up stick and bang them!” exclaimed Jack; whereupon the cudgel leaped up, and running along the line of girls, knocked them all on the heads and left them senseless on the pavement. Who acts: Jack, cudgel. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, with 
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# English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 51

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“Up stick and bang them!” exclaimed Jack; whereupon the cudgel leaped up, and running along the line of girls, knocked them all on the heads and left them senseless on the pavement.

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**Who acts:** Jack, cudgel · **What happens:** bang, exclaim, leap up, run, knock, leave · **To what, where:** sticks, line, heads, pavement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, cudgel), 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:pg7439:45:51
# text = “Up stick and bang them!” exclaimed Jack; whereupon the cudgel leaped up, and running along the line of girls, knocked them all on the heads and left them senseless on the pavement.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bang	bang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
26	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sticks *= stick* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leap up** | participle | the cudgel |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the line of girls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along line=Trajectory |
| 5 | **knock** | past | the cudgel *not said here* | sticks *= stick* |  | the heads |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on head=Destination |
| 6 | **leave** | past | the cudgel *not said here* | sticks *= stick* |  | the pavement |  | senseless *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pavement=Location |

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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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