The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 5

Badger says he can't do anything now — it's winter, and in winter no animal is expected to do anything brave or busy.

Who acts: Badger, car, animal · What happens: say, not do, be, expect, do · To what, where: anything, winter, animal · 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, car, animal), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 do	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 do	advmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 winter	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 winter	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 winter	cop
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expected	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 expected	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expected	obl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 animal	det
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expected	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 expected	aux:pass
20	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 expected	xcomp
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 do	obj
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 anything	amod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 busy	cc
26	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brave	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Badger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	can	Badger	anything	now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	is a	present	car	winter		tree rules
4	expect	present · passive		no animal	winter	tree rules
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	no animal not said here	anything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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:5.

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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