The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 19
The Otter: «Proud, I'm sure» — an old polite way of saying «pleased to meet you».
Who acts: old polite way · What happens: be, say, meet · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 (old polite way), 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 Otter | det |
| 2 | Otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Proud | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proud | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proud | punct |
| 5 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Proud | parataxis |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Proud | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 14 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Proud | appos |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 saying | mark |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pleased | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Otter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a old polite way = way | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a old polite way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | a old polite way not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:19.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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