The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 29

The Otter: «if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.»

Who acts: head, you · What happens: be, need, punch, rely · To what, where: head

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 (head, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Otter	det
2	Otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Otter	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 's	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 's	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 's	expl
7	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Otter	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 's	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 needs	nsubj
11	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 head	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 punched	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 punched	aux:pass
14	punched	punch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 needs	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 punched	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 rely	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 rely	aux
18	confidently	confidently	ADV	_	19 rely	advmod
19	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 needs	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 rely	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 punch	mark
23	punch	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rely	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 punch	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Otter	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Otter	conj

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a head		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need in a quote	present	a head				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	punch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a head not said here				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
4	rely in a quote	can	you			upon the Badger = badger; confidently property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	punch in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	head			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:29.

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. 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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