The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 37
Talk in this lesson: «fixin' to» (southern US) = about to; «no cap» = honestly, no lie; «bussin'» = really good; «canny» (North East England) = quite, nice; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, fixin · To what, where: cap, lesson
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 (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 | 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 | _ | 7 fixin | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixin | punct |
| 7 | fixin | fixin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixin | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fixin | fixed |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixin | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 US | punct |
| 12 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 US | amod |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 » | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 US | punct |
| 15 | = | = | SYM | _ | 7 fixin | dep |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 = | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 about | fixed |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 « | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 cap | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 cap | det |
| 21 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 cap | punct |
| 23 | = | = | SYM | _ | 27 lie | punct |
| 24 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 27 lie | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lie | punct |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 lie | det |
| 27 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 bussin | punct |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 bussin | punct |
| 30 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lie | conj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 bussin | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 bussin | punct |
| 33 | = | = | SYM | _ | 35 good | punct |
| 34 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 good | advmod |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lie | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 » | punct |
| 37 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 38 canny | punct |
| 38 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 good | conj |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 38 canny | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 England | punct |
| 41 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 England | compound |
| 42 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 England | compound |
| 43 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 canny | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 England | punct |
| 45 | = | = | SYM | _ | 39 » | punct |
| 46 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 good | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 nice | punct |
| 48 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 good | conj |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 » | punct |
| 50 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 51 servo | punct |
| 51 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lie | conj |
| 52 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 51 servo | punct |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 Australia | punct |
| 54 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 servo | appos |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 Australia | punct |
| 56 | = | = | SYM | _ | 58 station | punct |
| 57 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 station | compound |
| 58 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | no cap | this lesson | no lie and bussin and servo obl | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cap=Patient | ||
| 2 | fixin in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules |
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:37.
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, R6-punct-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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