The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 33
I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived craze).
Who acts: I, Mole · What happens: wonder, take up, live · To what, where: new fad · 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 (I, Mole), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 fad | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fad | amod |
| 5 | fad | fad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 taken | compound:prt |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | _ | 8 taken | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 fad | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fad | det |
| 15 | fad | fad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 16 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 21 craze | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 craze | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lived | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 short | punct |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 craze | amod |
| 21 | craze | craze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fad | conj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 fad | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take up | present · perfect | Mole | what new fad | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fad=Theme | |||
| 3 | live in a quote | participle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:33.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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