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title: ‘Slap! bang! here I am!’ cried Blockhead-Hans; ‘better and better--i… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Slap! bang! here I am!’ cried Blockhead-Hans; ‘better and better--it is really famous!’ Who acts: Slap bang, bang. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 129

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

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

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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.

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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:pg640:50:129
# text = ‘Slap! bang! here I am!’ cried Blockhead-Hans; ‘better and better--it is really famous!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	‘	‘	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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