The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 11
The Badger lays it out: Toad has ignored every warning, is wasting the money his father left him, and is giving all the animals a bad name with his crashes and quarrels with the police.
Who acts: Badger, Toad, father · What happens: lay out, ignore, waste, leave, give, crash · To what, where: chauffeur, warning, money, Toad, bad name, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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, Toad, father), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | nsubj |
| 3 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lays | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 lays | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 ignored | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ignored | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ignored | aux |
| 9 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lays | parataxis |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 warning | det |
| 11 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ignored | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wasting | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wasting | aux |
| 14 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ignored | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wasting | obj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 money | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 giving | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 giving | cc |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 giving | aux |
| 24 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 wasting | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 animals | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animals | det |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 giving | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 name | det |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 name | amod |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 giving | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 crashes | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 crashes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 giving | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 quarrels | cc |
| 35 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 crashes | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 police | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 police | det |
| 38 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crashes | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay out | present | the Badger | chauffeur | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | ||||
| 2 | ignore | present · perfect | Toad | every warning | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | ||||
| 3 | waste | present · progressive | Toad not said here | the money | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | Toad's father | Toad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | present · progressive | Toad not said here | a bad name | all animals | with Toad's crashes with the police and quarrels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient name=Theme | ||
| 6 | crash | Toad | with the police | nom crash «event intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:11.
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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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