The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 6
Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but there are weasels, stoats and foxes too, and «you can't really trust them».
Who acts: Badger, nobody, weasels, you · What happens: live, bother, be, not trust · To what, where: middle, Badger, weasels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, nobody, weasels, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 middle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bothers | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bothers | cc |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 bothers | nsubj |
| 11 | bothers | bother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lives | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bothers | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lives | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 are | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lives | conj |
| 17 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stoats | punct |
| 19 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 weasels | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 foxes | cc |
| 21 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 weasels | conj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 are | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trust | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trust | cc |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 trust | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 trust | nsubj |
| 27 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 trust | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 trust | advmod |
| 29 | really | really | ADV | _ | 30 trust | advmod |
| 30 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 are | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 trust | obj |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 trust | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Badger | the middle of middle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | bother | present | nobody | Badger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | does | present | weasels and stoats and foxes | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not trust in a quote | can | you | weasels = weasel | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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