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title: Where is my tinder-box?’ and so he struck a spark, and, presto! ther… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 97

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:46:97
# text = Where is my tinder-box?’ and so he struck a spark, and, presto! there came the dog with eyes as large as saucers.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	presto	presto	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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