The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 31
Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toad ...
Who acts: Thing · What happens: suppose, come along · To what, where: Rat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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 (Thing), 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 | Supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Thing | det |
| 3 | Thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Supposing | ccomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Supposing | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 bother | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 O | punct |
| 16 | bother | bother | INTJ | _ | 1 Supposing | discourse |
| 17 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bother | obj |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | the Rat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come along | past | another Thing | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:31.
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. 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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