The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 18
Or anywhere else, for that matter,» he «could not help adding».
Who acts: Rat · What happens: not help, add
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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 anywhere | cc |
| 2 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 anywhere | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 anywhere | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 matter | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anywhere | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 anywhere | parataxis |
| 15 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 help | xcomp |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | Rat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | Rat not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:18.
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 ×5. 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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