The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 7
The Mole, who knows it's bad manners to talk about trouble ahead, changes the subject.
Who acts: Mole, middle · What happens: know, be, talk, change · To what, where: bad manners, subject · 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 (Mole, middle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mole | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 manners | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 manners | cop |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manners | amod |
| 9 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 knows | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knows | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talk | obl |
| 14 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 11 talk | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changes | punct |
| 16 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 subject | det |
| 18 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changes | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the Mole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | middle | bad manners | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | about trouble; ahead property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about trouble=Topic | ||||
| 4 | change | present | the Mole | the subject | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-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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