The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 27
«Any friend of mine walks where he likes in this country, or I'll know the reason why!»
Who acts: friend, Badger · What happens: walk, like, know · To what, where: country, reason
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 (friend, Badger), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 walks | punct |
| 2 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mine | case |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 likes | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 likes | nsubj |
| 9 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 walks | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 likes | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 walks | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reason | det |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 reason | advmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 walks | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | present | mine friend | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | friend | this country | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | future | the Badger = badger | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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:27.
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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