The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 122
‘Slap! bang! here I am again!
Who acts: I · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg640:3966): 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Slap | punct |
| 2 | Slap | slap | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Slap | punct |
| 4 | bang | bang | INTJ | _ | 2 Slap | parataxis |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bang | punct |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Slap | parataxis |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 here | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | cop |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 here | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | again | here property | tree rules |
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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