The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 36
All the same, it sounds as if it might have been—well, rather fun, you know!» he added «wistfully» (wistfully = longingly, a bit sadly).
Who acts: caravan, you, Rat · What happens: sound, be, know, add · 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 (caravan, you, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 same | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sounds | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sounds | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sounds | nsubj |
| 6 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 been | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 been | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 been | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 been | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 been | aux |
| 12 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 well | advcl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 been | punct |
| 14 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 17 fun | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fun | punct |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 fun | advmod |
| 17 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sounds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fun | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 added | nsubj |
| 24 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sounds | parataxis |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 wistfully | punct |
| 26 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 24 added | advmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 wistfully | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 longingly | punct |
| 29 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 31 longingly | advmod |
| 30 | = | = | SYM | _ | 29 wistfully | punct |
| 31 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 26 wistfully | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sadly | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bit | det |
| 34 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sadly | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 31 longingly | conj |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 sadly | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | caravan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | might · perfect | caravan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Rat | wistfully property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:36.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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