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title: "Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what sort of people we have to deal with." Who acts: Jack, we, people. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 50

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"Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what sort of people we have to deal with."

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**Who acts:** Jack, we, people · **What happens:** say, walk, see, have, deal, sort · **To what, where:** tippy toes, sort, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, we, people), 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:pg7885:18:50
# text = "Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what sort of people we have to deal with."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tippy	tippy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | your tippy toes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | we | what sort of people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deal** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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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