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 6
Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat with new clothes and new everything.
Who acts: Toad, Otter · What happens: be, say · To what, where: river, brand new racing boat · 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 (Toad, Otter), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 out | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 out | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 says | parataxis |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 out | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Otter | det |
| 10 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boat | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 14 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boat | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 brand | punct |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boat | amod |
| 17 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boat | compound |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 clothes | case |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clothes | amod |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 boat | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 everything | cc |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 everything | amod |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 clothes | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Toad | the river | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Otter | a brand new racing boat with new clothes | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in boat=Manner |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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