The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 38
Talk in this lesson: «craic» (Ireland) = fun, good times; «eejit» (Ireland) = idiot; «sweet as» (NZ) = great, no problem; «can or not» (Singapore) = is it possible?; «ate» = did it brilliantly.
Who acts: you, problem · What happens: talk, eejit, be, eat, do · To what, where: lesson, Ireland, problem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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 (you, problem), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 craic | punct |
| 7 | craic | craic | X | _ | 4 lesson | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 craic | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ireland | punct |
| 10 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 craic | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ireland | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 times | punct |
| 13 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fun | punct |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 craic | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 eejit | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 eejit | punct |
| 19 | eejit | eejit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 eejit | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ireland | punct |
| 22 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eejit | obj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ireland | punct |
| 24 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 25 idiot | punct |
| 25 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eejit | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweet | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweet | punct |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 » | advmod |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweet | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 NZ | punct |
| 32 | NZ | NZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sweet | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 NZ | punct |
| 34 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 35 great | punct |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sweet | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 problem | punct |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 problem | det |
| 38 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sweet | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 can | punct |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 can | punct |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 possible | cc |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 can | conj |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 can | punct |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 Singapore | punct |
| 46 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 can | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Singapore | punct |
| 48 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 44 » | punct |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 possible | cop |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 possible | nsubj |
| 51 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 can | conj |
| 52 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 ate | punct |
| 54 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 55 ate | punct |
| 55 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 56 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 55 ate | punct |
| 57 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 58 did | punct |
| 58 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 ate | conj |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 did | obj |
| 60 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 58 did | advmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eejit in a quote | past | you not said here | Ireland | idiot obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | problem | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do | past | problem | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:38.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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