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 38
Old words: «provender» = food; «forthwith» = at once; «rumpus» = noise and fuss; «athwart» = across; «whereon» = on which; «Greedy beggars!» = a friendly tease, not a real insult.
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: 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 provender | punct |
| 5 | provender | provender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | parataxis |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 provender | punct |
| 7 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 8 food | punct |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provender | appos |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 forthwith | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 forthwith | punct |
| 11 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 2 words | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 forthwith | punct |
| 13 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 15 once | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | _ | 11 forthwith | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rumpus | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 rumpus | punct |
| 18 | rumpus | rumpus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 rumpus | punct |
| 20 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 noise | punct |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rumpus | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fuss | cc |
| 23 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noise | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 athwart | punct |
| 26 | athwart | athwart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | conj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 athwart | punct |
| 28 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 26 athwart | punct |
| 29 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 athwart | appos |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 whereon | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 whereon | punct |
| 32 | whereon | whereon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | conj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 whereon | punct |
| 34 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 40 beggars | punct |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 whereon | appos |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 beggars | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 beggars | punct |
| 39 | Greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beggars | amod |
| 40 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 beggars | punct |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 beggars | punct |
| 43 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 46 tease | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 tease | det |
| 45 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tease | amod |
| 46 | tease | tease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 beggars | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 insult | punct |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 insult | advmod |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 insult | det |
| 50 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 insult | amod |
| 51 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tease | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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:38.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×6. 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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