The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 7
He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: be, not 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 (Toad), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 natured | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 natured | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 natured | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 good | cc |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 clever | punct |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 13 clever | advmod |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 clever | advmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 clever | advmod |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 clever | advmod |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 natured | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 boastful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boastful | cc |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 boastful | advmod |
| 17 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 natured | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 conceited | cc |
| 19 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boastful | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 natured | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | Toad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Toad | natured property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not be | Toad not said here | perhaps, though property | 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:7.
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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