The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 19
«"Well, never mind what done it," said the Mole, forgetting his grammar in his pain.» — correct English would be «what did it».
Who acts: Mole · What happens: not mind, do, say, forget, pain · To what, where: stump, grammar, pain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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 (Mole), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 mind | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 mind | advmod |
| 6 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 done | nsubj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mole | det |
| 14 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgetting | punct |
| 16 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grammar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgetting | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pain | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pain | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgetting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgetting | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 English | punct |
| 25 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 English | amod |
| 26 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | parataxis |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 what | punct |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 » | obj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | ccomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 did | obj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 be | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | stump | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Mole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | forget in a quote | gerund | the Mole not said here | Mole's grammar | Mole's pain | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pain in a quote | Mole | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:19.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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