The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 20
This is the seventh.» Toad's coach-house is «piled up to the roof—with fragments of motor-cars, none of them bigger than your hat!» The Mole adds: «He's been in hospital three times», and the fines are «simply awful».
Who acts: This, Mole, fines · What happens: be, pile up, add · To what, where: seventh, coach house, hospital · 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 (This, Mole, fines), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seventh | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seventh | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seventh | det |
| 4 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adds | parataxis |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seventh | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 seventh | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Toad | case |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 coach | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 piled | aux:pass |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 piled | punct |
| 14 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seventh | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 piled | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piled | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fragments | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 fragments | case |
| 21 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 piled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cars | case |
| 23 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cars | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 motor | punct |
| 25 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fragments | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bigger | punct |
| 27 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 bigger | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 none | nmod |
| 30 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 cars | amod |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 hat | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bigger | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 fragments | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 fragments | punct |
| 36 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Mole | det |
| 37 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adds | nsubj |
| 38 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 adds | punct |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 hospital | punct |
| 41 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 hospital | nsubj |
| 42 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 hospital | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 hospital | cop |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 hospital | case |
| 45 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adds | ccomp |
| 46 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 times | nummod |
| 47 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 hospital | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 hospital | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 awful | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 awful | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 fines | det |
| 52 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 awful | nsubj |
| 53 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 awful | cop |
| 54 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 56 awful | punct |
| 55 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 56 awful | advmod |
| 56 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 adds | conj |
| 57 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 56 awful | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the seventh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pile up | present · passive | Toad's coach house | to the roof; with fragments of motor cars | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fragment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | present | the Mole | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present · perfect | Mole | hospital | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | the fines | awful, simply property | 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:20.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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