The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 24

Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.»

Who acts: Rat, verse · What happens: not be, be

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, verse), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 clever	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	...	...	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boastful	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boastful	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 boastful	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 boastful	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 boastful	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boastful	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boastful	cop
15	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 boastful	cc:preconj
16	boastful	boastful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clever	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 conceited	cc
18	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boastful	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
hedged: yes
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Rat	clever, perhaps property	tree rules
2	is	may	verse	boastful property	tree rules
3	be		verse not said here		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:24.

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): no change. 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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