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title: Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad. Who acts: Jack. 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 56

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Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** make, sing out · **To what, where:** sign, hoofs

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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), 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:pg7885:18:56
# text = Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Jack | a sign |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product |
| 2 | **sing out** *speech: express* | participle · passive |  | hoofs *= hoof* |  |  |  | like mad | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:** «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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