The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 4

Talk about your old river!» The Rat says quietly that he doesn't talk about his river — but he thinks about it all the time.

Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: talk, say, not talk, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (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	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 river	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 river	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	parataxis
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 says	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 talk	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talk	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 talk	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 talk	advmod
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 river	nmod:poss
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talk	obl
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 thinks	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 thinks	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thinks	nsubj
23	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thinks	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 time	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thinks	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		about your old river	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the Rat		quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not talk in a quote	present · do-support	Rat		about Rat's river	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about river=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	Rat	time	about river	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:4.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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