The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 16
Please, I want to row, now!» — «Not yet, my young friend ... wait till you've had a few lessons.
Who acts: I, young friend, you · What happens: want, row, wait, have · To what, where: young friend, few lessons
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 (I, young friend, you), 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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 want | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 row | mark |
| 6 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 13 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 yet | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yet | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 20 wait | punct |
| 20 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 friend | parataxis |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 23 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | aux |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wait | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lessons | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lessons | amod |
| 27 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | my young friend | now; yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | row not said to happen | to-infinitive | my young friend not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | present · perfect | you | a few lessons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:16.
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. 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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