The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 22

The writer jokes that he was wrong, «because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why».

Who acts: writer, manners, it · What happens: joke, be, matter, take, explain · 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 (writer, manners, it), 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 writer	det
2	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jokes	nsubj
3	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wrong	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jokes	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrong	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 matter	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 matter	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 matter	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	aux
13	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrong	advcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	13 matter	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 take	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 matter	advcl
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 take	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 explain	mark
24	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	advcl
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 explain	advmod
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	the writer		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	writer	wrong property	tree rules
3	matter in a quote	present · do-support	manners		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	take in a quote	would	it	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	explain speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:22.

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. 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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