The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 35
They «made so bold as to knock» (dared to knock) at Badger's back door.
Who acts: fines · What happens: make, knock, dare · To what, where: back door
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 bold | advmod |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 knock | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 knock | mark |
| 8 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 dared | punct |
| 11 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 knock | mark |
| 13 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dared | xcomp |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 dared | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 16 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Badger | case |
| 18 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 door | amod |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | fines = fine | bold property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | knock in a quote | to-infinitive | fines = fine not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dare | participle | fines = fine not said here | Badger's back door | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | knock | to-infinitive | fines = fine not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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:35.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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