The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 34
Badger he's a kind-hearted gentleman, as everyone knows».
Who acts: Badger, everyone · What happens: be, know · To what, where: hearted gentleman
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, everyone), 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 | 8 gentleman | dislocated |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gentleman | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentleman | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearted | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 7 | hearted | heart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 knows | mark |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentleman | advcl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 gentleman | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gentleman | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Badger | a hearted gentleman | Badger dislocated | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:34.
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): 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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