The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 39
Talk in this lesson: «skint» (UK) = with no money left; «rizz» = charm; «canny» (North East England) = nice, or quite; «cwtch» (Wales) = a cuddle, a cosy corner; «y'all» (southern US) = you all.
Who acts: you, rizz, cwtch · What happens: talk, leave, charm, cuddle · To what, where: lesson, money
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 (you, rizz, cwtch), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 skint | punct |
| 7 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lesson | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 skint | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 UK | punct |
| 10 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 skint | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 UK | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 15 money | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 money | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 rizz | punct |
| 19 | rizz | rizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 charm | nsubj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 rizz | punct |
| 21 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 22 charm | punct |
| 22 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 canny | punct |
| 25 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 canny | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 England | punct |
| 28 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 East | amod |
| 29 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 England | compound |
| 30 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 canny | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 England | punct |
| 32 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 33 nice | punct |
| 33 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 canny | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 quite | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 quite | cc |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 nice | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 cwtch | punct |
| 39 | cwtch | cwtch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cuddle | nsubj |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 cwtch | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Wales | punct |
| 42 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 cwtch | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Wales | punct |
| 44 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 46 cuddle | punct |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 cuddle | det |
| 46 | cuddle | cuddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nice | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 corner | punct |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 corner | det |
| 49 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 corner | amod |
| 50 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cuddle | conj |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 « | punct |
| 52 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 53 y'all | punct |
| 53 | y'all | y'all | ADV | _ | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 53 y'all | punct |
| 55 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 57 US | punct |
| 56 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 US | amod |
| 57 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 » | appos |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 57 US | punct |
| 59 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 53 y'all | punct |
| 60 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 61 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 60 you | dep |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | with no money | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | no money not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | charm | rizz | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cuddle | cwtch | 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:39.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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