The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 18
We like to be Heads down, tails up, Dabbling free!»
Who acts: We · What happens: like, be, tail up, dabble · To what, where: Heads
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 like | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Heads | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Heads | cop |
| 5 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 down | obl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 like | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tails | punct |
| 8 | tails | tail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 like | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tails | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dabbling | punct |
| 11 | Dabbling | dabble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 like | conj |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dabbling | xcomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Heads | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tail up | present | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dabble | gerund | We not said here | free property | 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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:18.
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): R5-strong ×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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