The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 26

When the door-mat appeared — «There, what did I tell you?» — the Mole answered «Absolutely nothing whatever ... with perfect truthfulness»: the Rat really hadn't told him anything.

Who acts: door mat, Mole, Rat · What happens: appear, tell, answer, not tell · To what, where: you, nothing, anything, Mole · 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 (door mat, Mole, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 appeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mat	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 door	punct
5	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 answered	advcl
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
9	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 tell	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tell	obj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mole	det
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	nsubj
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 nothing	punct
23	Absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	24 nothing	advmod
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 answered	obj
25	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 nothing	acl
26	...	...	PUNCT	_	30 »	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 truthfulness	case
28	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 truthfulness	amod
29	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obl
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 Rat	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Rat	det
33	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 told	nsubj
34	really	really	ADV	_	37 told	advmod
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 told	aux
36	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 told	advmod
37	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 answered	parataxis
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 told	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the door mat					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the Mole = mole		you	there		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
3	answer speech: ask	past	the Mole	nothing			with perfect truthfulness	tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Rat	anything	Mole			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:26.

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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