The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 13
The Rat gives in, because he can't bear to disappoint his friends.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: give in, not bear, disappoint · To what, where: friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 gives | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bear | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 bear | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bear | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bear | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bear | advmod |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gives | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 disappoint | mark |
| 12 | disappoint | disappoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bear | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 disappoint | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in | present | the Rat | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not bear | can | Rat | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | disappoint | to-infinitive | Rat not said here | Rat's friends | 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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:13.
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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