The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 11
The Badger's first words are gruff: «Now, the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry.» (Exceedingly = very.)
Who acts: first words, this, Mole, Badger · What happens: be, happen, word · To what, where: next time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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 (first words, this, Mole, Badger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Badger | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gruff | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gruff | cop |
| 7 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 gruff | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 gruff | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 angry | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 angry | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 next | advmod |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 angry | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 happens | nsubj |
| 17 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happens | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 angry | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 angry | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 angry | cop |
| 22 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 23 angry | advmod |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gruff | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 angry | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 gruff | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 very | punct |
| 27 | Exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 29 very | advmod |
| 28 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 27 Exceedingly | punct |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 gruff | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gruff | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 gruff | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Badger's first words | gruff property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present | this | the next time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | Mole | now; time | angry, exceedingly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | word | the Badger | nom word «communication 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:11.
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): 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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