The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 32
The Rat, chewing a straw: «did I overhear you say something about "we," and "start," and "this afternoon?"»
Who acts: Rat, you · What happens: chew, overhear, say · To what, where: straw, something · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rat | punct |
| 4 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Rat | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 straw | det |
| 6 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chewing | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 chewing | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rat | punct |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overhear | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 overhear | nsubj |
| 11 | overhear | overhear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 overhear | ccomp |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 start | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 we | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 something | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 we | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 we | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 start | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 start | punct |
| 22 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 we | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 start | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 start | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 afternoon | cc |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 afternoon | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 afternoon | det |
| 28 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 something | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 overhear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | gerund | the Rat not said here | a straw | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | overhear in a quote | past · do-support | Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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:32.
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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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