The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 8
The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can walk where he likes.
Who acts: Badger, friend · What happens: promise, pass around, walk, like · To what, where: word
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 (Badger, friend), 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 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promises | nsubj |
| 3 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promises | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walk | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 his | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 walk | aux |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pass | parataxis |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 walk | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 likes | nsubj |
| 18 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 walk | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | the Badger | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pass around not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Badger not said here | the word | around property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | walk | can | Badger's friend | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like | present | Badger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:8.
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.
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