The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 22
The Mole agrees «So it is, so it is» — «No, it isn't!» cries the Rat — «Well then, it isn't, it isn't,» says the Mole soothingly: he changes his mind at once to keep the peace.
Who acts: Mole, verse, Rat · What happens: agree, be, change, keep, mind · To what, where: mind, peace · 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 (Mole, verse, Rat), 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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agrees | nsubj |
| 3 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agrees | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 cries | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cries | cop |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 agrees | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 15 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 is | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 is | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cries | ccomp |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 is | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 22 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agrees | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rat | det |
| 24 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cries | obj |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cries | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 cries | punct |
| 27 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 cries | advmod |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 agrees | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 says | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 is | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 says | cop |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 is | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 is | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 is | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 says | cop |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 is | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 says | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 says | punct |
| 39 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agrees | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Mole | det |
| 41 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 says | nsubj |
| 42 | soothingly | soothingly | ADV | _ | 39 says | advmod |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 changes | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 changes | nsubj |
| 45 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 says | parataxis |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 mind | nmod:poss |
| 47 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 changes | obj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 once | case |
| 49 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 45 changes | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 keep | mark |
| 51 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 changes | advcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 peace | det |
| 53 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 keep | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agrees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | the Mole | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | verse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Rat | cry, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Mole | say, soothingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | change | present | Rat | Rat's mind | once property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | Rat not said here | the peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mind | Rat | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:22.
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 ×8, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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