The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 39
Old words: «pettishly» = sulkily; «folly» = silliness; «hitherto incredulous» = until now not believing; «penitence» = being sorry; «appreciated» = valued; «domestic litter» = household rubbish.
What happens: not believe, be, appreciate, value · 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: 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 » | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 pettishly | punct |
| 5 | pettishly | pettishly | ADV | _ | 2 words | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 pettishly | punct |
| 7 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 5 pettishly | punct |
| 8 | sulkily | sulkily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pettishly | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 folly | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 folly | punct |
| 11 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sulkily | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 folly | punct |
| 13 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 14 silliness | punct |
| 14 | silliness | silliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 folly | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 » | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 incredulous | punct |
| 17 | hitherto | hitherto | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 incredulous | advmod |
| 18 | incredulous | incredulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 » | amod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 sulkily | appos |
| 20 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 31 sorry | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 believing | mark |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 believing | advmod |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 believing | advmod |
| 24 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sorry | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 penitence | punct |
| 26 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 penitence | amod |
| 27 | penitence | penitence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 believing | parataxis |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 penitence | punct |
| 29 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 31 sorry | punct |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sorry | cop |
| 31 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 » | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 appreciated | punct |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 appreciated | punct |
| 34 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sorry | ccomp |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 appreciated | punct |
| 36 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 19 » | punct |
| 37 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sulkily | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 litter | punct |
| 39 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 litter | punct |
| 40 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 litter | amod |
| 41 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sulkily | advmod |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 litter | punct |
| 43 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 45 rubbish | punct |
| 44 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rubbish | compound |
| 45 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 litter | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | gerund | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | sorry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | appreciate in a quote | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | value | past | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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:39.
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 ×3. 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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