The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 97

Where is my tinder-box?’ and so he struck a spark, and, presto! there came the dog with eyes as large as saucers.

Who acts: tinder box, soldier, dog · What happens: be, strike, come · To what, where: spark

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tinder box, soldier, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3334): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 box	nmod:poss
4	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tinder	punct
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 struck	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 struck	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spark	det
14	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 presto	punct
18	presto	presto	INTJ	_	21 came	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 presto	punct
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dog	nmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 large	advmod
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyes	amod
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 saucers	case
29	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 large	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	my tinder box			where property	tree rules
2	strike	past	soldier	a spark			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Patient
3	come	past	the dog with eyes		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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