The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 23
Sheer waste of time».
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: 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 | Sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waste | amod |
| 2 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waste | nmod |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 waste | punct |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- fragment
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=character
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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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