The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 129

‘Slap! bang! here I am!’ cried Blockhead-Hans; ‘better and better--it is really famous!’

Who acts: Slap bang, bang · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Slap bang, Blockhead

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 (Slap bang, bang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 bang	punct
2	Slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bang	compound
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Slap	punct
4	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bang	punct
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bang	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 am	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bang	cop
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bang	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 bang	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Hans	punct
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Blockhead	nmod:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct
16	‘	‘	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 cried	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 better	cc
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 better	conj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 famous	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 famous	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 famous	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 famous	advmod
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	parataxis
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 famous	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Slap bang	here		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Slap bang	Blockhead Hans			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockhead=Topic
3	is	present	bang			famous 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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