The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 15
Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to worse … Another smash-up only last week, and a bad one.»
Who acts: Badger, old Toad · What happens: ask, go on · To what, where: Rat · 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 (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 | Badger | badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 going | advmod |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Toad | amod |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 going | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 bad | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 bad | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 bad | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bad | case |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 worse | case |
| 21 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 bad | parataxis |
| 22 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 bad | punct |
| 23 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 smash | det |
| 24 | smash | smash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 one | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 up | punct |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 smash | compound |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 week | advmod |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 week | amod |
| 29 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 one | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 one | det |
| 33 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 one | amod |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Badger | the Rat | week | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go on in a quote | present · progressive | old Toad | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:15.
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 ×2. 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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