The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 17
It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody»; usually you had to catch him along a hedgerow or hunt him up in his house in the Wood.
Who acts: opening, Badger, you · What happens: be, pay, have, catch, hunt up · To what, where: wonderful thing, formal call, Badger, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (opening, Badger, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 pay | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Badger | det |
| 10 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | nsubj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 pay | punct |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pay | aux |
| 13 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 call | det |
| 15 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 call | amod |
| 16 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 anybody | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 anybody | cc |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 anybody | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 anybody | case |
| 23 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 them | conj |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 pay | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 26 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 28 had | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 catch | mark |
| 30 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 catch | obj |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 hedgerow | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hedgerow | det |
| 34 | hedgerow | hedgerow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 catch | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 hunt | cc |
| 36 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 catch | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hunt | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 hunt | compound:prt |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hunt | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 Wood | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Wood | det |
| 44 | Wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 house | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | opening | a wonderful thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | should | the Badger | a formal call | on things = thing | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset | |||
| 3 | have | past | you | usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | you not said here | Badger | along a hedgerow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | hunt up | infinitive | you not said here | Badger | Badger's house in the Wood | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Location |
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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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