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The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 18

«Very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now … there was a city—a city of people, you know … They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.»

Who acts: Wild Wood, city, you, people · What happens: wave, be, know, build, last, think · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wild Wood, city, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

punctadvmodadvmodadvmodpunctcasedetapposobldetamodnsubjacl:relcladvmodmarkexplccompdetnsubjpunctdetapposcasenmodpunctnsubjmarknsubjccompmarkxcomppunctmarknsubjadvclnmod:possnsubjauxccompcaseoblpunctpunctroot«PUNCTVeryADVlongADVagoADV,PUNCTonADPtheDETspotNOUNwhereADVtheDETWildADJWoodPROPNwavesVERBnowADV…SCONJtherePRONwasVERBaDETcityNOUN—PUNCTaDETcityNOUNofADPpeopleNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONknowVERB…SCONJTheyPRONbuiltVERBtoPARTlastVERB,PUNCTforSCONJtheyPRONthoughtVERBtheirPRONcityNOUNwouldAUXlastVERBforADPeverADV.PUNCT»PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1««PUNCT_27 knowpunct
2VeryveryADV_3 longadvmod
3longlongADVDegree=Pos4 agoadvmod
4agoagoADV_27 knowadvmod
5,,PUNCT_8 spotpunct
6ononADP_8 spotcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 spotdet
8spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing4 agoappos
9wherewhereADVPronType=Rel13 wavesobl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Wooddet
11WildWildADJDegree=Pos12 Woodamod
12WoodWoodPROPNNumber=Sing13 wavesnsubj
13waveswaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 spotacl:relcl
14nownowADVPronType=Dem13 wavesadvmod
15……SCONJ_17 wasmark
16theretherePRONPronType=Dem17 wasexpl
17wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 nowccomp
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 citydet
19citycityNOUNNumber=Sing17 wasnsubj
20—-PUNCT_22 citypunct
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 citydet
22citycityNOUNNumber=Sing19 cityappos
23ofofADP_24 peoplecase
24peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur22 citynmod
25,,PUNCT_27 knowpunct
26youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs27 knownsubj
27knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
28……SCONJ_30 builtmark
29TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 builtnsubj
30builtbuildVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 knowccomp
31totoPART_32 lastmark
32lastlastVERBVerbForm=Inf30 builtxcomp
33,,PUNCT_36 thoughtpunct
34forforSCONJ_36 thoughtmark
35theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs36 thoughtnsubj
36thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 builtadvcl
37theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 citynmod:poss
38citycityNOUNNumber=Sing40 lastnsubj
39wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin40 lastaux
40lastlastVERBVerbForm=Inf36 thoughtccomp
41forforADP_42 evercase
42evereverADVPronType=Ind40 lastobl
43..PUNCT_27 knowpunct
44»»PUNCT_27 knowpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
character
polarity
none
teacher
changed voice=character
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wave in a quotepresentthe Wild Woodnowvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2be in a quotepasta citytherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3know in a quotepresentyouago propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4build in a quotepastpeopletree rules
5last in a quoteto-infinitivepeople not said herevn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6think speech: other in a quotepastpeoplevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7last in a quotewouldpeople's cityvn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:18.

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 ×2. 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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