The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 7

He listens to their whole adventure and never once says «I told you so».

Who acts: Mole, plates · What happens: listen, say, tell, adventure · To what, where: you · 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 (Mole, plates), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listens	nsubj
2	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 adventure	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 adventure	nmod:poss
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 adventure	amod
6	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listens	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 once	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 says	advmod
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 listens	conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	so	so	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	present	Mole		to plates's whole adventure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to adventure=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Mole not said here		once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Mole	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	adventure		plates = plate			nom adventure «act 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:7.

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): R5-strong ×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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