The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 23
Badger «nodded gravely at intervals as the animals told their story», and did not seem surprised or shocked at anything.
Who acts: Badger, animals · What happens: nod, tell, not seem · To what, where: intervals, story · 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 (Badger, animals), 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 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 3 nodded | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 intervals | case |
| 6 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nodded | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 told | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seem | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seem | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seem | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 seem | advmod |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nodded | conj |
| 19 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seem | xcomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 shocked | cc |
| 21 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 surprised | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 anything | case |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 surprised | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod in a quote | past | Badger | intervals | gravely property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the animals | animals's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not seem | past · do-support | Badger not said here | surprised property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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:23.
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): no change. 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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