The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 0
Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old Toad is getting on.
Who acts: friends, Badger, old Toad · What happens: chat, ask, get on · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (friends, Badger, old Toad), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chat | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 warm | cc |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Full | conj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chat | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 friends | det |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chat | nsubj |
| 10 | chat | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asks | cc |
| 13 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chat | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Toad | amod |
| 17 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 getting | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 getting | aux |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 getting | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 chat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | present | the friends | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Badger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get on | present · progressive | old Toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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