The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 9
Badger shows them to a room half full of apples, potatoes, nuts and honey, with two little white beds smelling of lavender.
Who acts: Badger, two little white beds · What happens: show, smell · To what, where: fines, room
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, two little white beds), 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 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shows | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obl |
| 7 | half | half | ADV | _ | 8 full | advmod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 apples | case |
| 10 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 potatoes | punct |
| 12 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 apples | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nuts | punct |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 apples | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 honey | cc |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 apples | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beds | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 beds | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 beds | nummod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beds | amod |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beds | amod |
| 22 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 room | obl |
| 23 | smelling | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 beds | acl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lavender | case |
| 25 | lavender | lavender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smelling | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Badger | fines = fine | a room | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to room=Recipient | |||
| 2 | smell | gerund | two little white beds not said here | of lavender | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of lavender=Theme |
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:9.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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