The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 19
Badger asks «Smashes, or machines?» The Rat: «it's the same thing—with Toad.
Who acts: Badger, skin · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: Smashes, same thing · 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, skin), 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 | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Smashes | punct |
| 4 | Smashes | smash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 machines | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 machines | cc |
| 7 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Smashes | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Smashes | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Smashes | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Smashes | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Toad | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Toad | case |
| 21 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Badger | Smashes the Rat or machines | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent smash=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | skin | the same thing | with Toad | tree rules |
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:19.
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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