The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 18
If he'd only pay «a decent, steady, well-trained animal» to drive for him, «he'd get on all right».
Who acts: Badger · What happens: pay, train, drive, get · To what, where: right
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 pay | advmod |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 animal | advcl |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 animal | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 8 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 decent | punct |
| 10 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 steady | punct |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 trained | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 14 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 animal | amod |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 animal | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drive | mark |
| 18 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 animal | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drive | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drive | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 right | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 right | det |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 get | obl |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | would | Badger | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | train in a quote | participle | well property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | for Badger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | would | Badger | all right | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on right=Source |
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:18.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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