The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 21

The Rat says the ducks ask why fellows can't «do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry».

Who acts: Rat, ducks, fellows, other fellows · What happens: say, ask, not do, like, sit, watch · To what, where: banks, fellows, remarks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rat, ducks, fellows, other fellows), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ducks	det
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	nsubj
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 do	advmod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	ccomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
15	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 like	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
18	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 like	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 like	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 like	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 like	nsubj
22	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 like	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 fellows	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellows	amod
27	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 like	obl
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 fellows	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 banks	case
30	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sitting	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watching	cc
32	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sitting	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 watching	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 time	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 time	det
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 watching	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 making	cc
38	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sitting	conj
39	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 making	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 poetry	cc
41	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 remarks	conj
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Rat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	present	the ducks					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do in a quote	can	fellows					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	like in a quote	present	fellows = fellow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	like in a quote	present	fellows = fellow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	like in a quote	present	fellows = fellow				instead other fellows	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	sit in a quote	gerund	other fellows not said here		banks			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
8	watch in a quote	gerund	other fellows not said here	fellows = fellow		time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	make in a quote	gerund	other fellows not said here	remarks and poetry				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product

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:21.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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