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title: "Level your pistols!" cried Jack, "and make smithereens of 'em. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Level your pistols!" cried Jack, "and make smithereens of 'em. 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 58

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"Level your pistols!" cried Jack, "and make smithereens of 'em.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** level, cry, make · **To what, where:** pistols, smithereens · **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), 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:pg7885:18:58
# text = "Level your pistols!" cried Jack, "and make smithereens of 'em.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Level	level	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	smithereens	smithereen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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