The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 3

The ducks don't either, laughs the Rat — they say it's nonsense to sit on banks making poems about other people.

Who acts: ducks · What happens: laugh, say, be, sit, make · To what, where: Rat, nonsense, banks, poems · 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 (ducks), 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 ducks	det
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	parataxis
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 do	advmod
5	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laughs	punct
7	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 laughs	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 laughs	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nonsense	expl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nonsense	cop
15	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	_	12 say	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nonsense	csubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 banks	case
19	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sit	obl
20	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 sit	advcl
21	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 making	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 poems	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	present		the Rat			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	ducks = duck				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		nonsense			tree rules
4	sit	to-infinitive			banks		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
5	make	gerund		poems		about other people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=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:3.

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 ×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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