The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 8
The Badger tells the chauffeur he won't be wanted, and the friends bundle Toad inside.
Who acts: Badger, friends · What happens: tell, not want, bundle · To what, where: chauffeur, Badger, Toad · 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 (Badger, friends), 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 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chauffeur | det |
| 5 | chauffeur | chauffeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wanted | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wanted | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | aux:pass |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bundle | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bundle | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friends | det |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bundle | nsubj |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | conj |
| 16 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bundle | obj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 bundle | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Badger | the chauffeur | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chauffeur=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not want | future · passive | Badger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bundle | present | the friends | Toad | inside property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient |
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: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): R6-punct-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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