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 36
«Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket.
Who acts: Packing, such pleasant work · What happens: pack, not be, unpack · To what, where: basket, such pleasant work · 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 (Packing, such pleasant work), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 2 | Packing | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 work | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 basket | det |
| 4 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Packing | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 work | advmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 such | advmod |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 unpacking | mark |
| 12 | unpacking | unpack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 work | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unpacking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack in a quote | gerund | the basket | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | Packing | such pleasant work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | unpack in a quote | gerund | such pleasant work not said here | the basket | tree rules |
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:36.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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