The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 17

But as a matter of fact I did none of it—only cleaned out the passages and chambers, as far as I had need of them.»

Who acts: I, fact · What happens: do, clean out, have, matter, need · To what, where: none, passages, need, chambers

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (I, fact), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 cleaned	discourse
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 matter	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 matter	det
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fact	case
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 did	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 none	nmod
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 cleaned	advmod
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 did	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 cleaned	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 passages	det
17	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cleaned	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chambers	cc
19	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 passages	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 far	advmod
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 had	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cleaned	advcl
26	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 need	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	I	none	as a matter of fact	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Eventuality
2	clean out	past		the passages and chambers		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent passage=Patient
3	have	past	I	need of chambers	far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	matter		fact			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
5	need			chambers = chamber		nom need «state transitive»: of=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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:17.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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