The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 35
Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it looks like, it feels like; «wicked» (New England) = very; «heaps» (Australia, NZ) = lots; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «lekker» (South Africa) = great; «rad» (old US) = cool.
Who acts: you, lesson, it · What happens: talk, give, look, feel · To what, where: bostin, lesson
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 (you, lesson, it), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 11 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 13 looks | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looks | nsubj |
| 13 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 17 feels | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feels | nsubj |
| 17 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 looks | advcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 feels | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 21 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 wicked | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 England | punct |
| 24 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 England | amod |
| 25 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wicked | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 England | punct |
| 27 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 31 heaps | punct |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 « | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 very | punct |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 heaps | punct |
| 31 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wicked | parataxis |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 heaps | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Australia | punct |
| 34 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 heaps | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 NZ | punct |
| 36 | NZ | NZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Australia | conj |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 Australia | punct |
| 38 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 39 lots | punct |
| 39 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 heaps | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 bostin | punct |
| 41 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 42 bostin | punct |
| 42 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 bostin | punct |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 42 bostin | punct |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 Country | punct |
| 46 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Country | compound |
| 47 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bostin | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 Country | punct |
| 49 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 50 brilliant | punct |
| 50 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bostin | list |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 lekker | punct |
| 52 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 53 lekker | punct |
| 53 | lekker | lekker | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 53 lekker | punct |
| 55 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 57 Africa | punct |
| 56 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Africa | compound |
| 57 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 lekker | appos |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 57 Africa | punct |
| 59 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 60 great | punct |
| 60 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 lekker | conj |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 64 » | punct |
| 62 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 63 rad | punct |
| 63 | rad | rad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 lekker | obl |
| 64 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 63 rad | punct |
| 65 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 67 US | punct |
| 66 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 US | amod |
| 67 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 rad | appos |
| 68 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 67 US | punct |
| 69 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 70 cool | punct |
| 70 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 lekker | conj |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | bostin | this lesson | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · progressive | lesson | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel | present | lesson | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:35.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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