The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 9

«Take those ridiculous things off!» «Shan't!» So the Rat sits on him and the Mole peels his motor-clothes off bit by bit.

Who acts: you, Rat, Mole · What happens: take off, sit, peel · To what, where: ridiculous things, motor clothes

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, Rat, Mole), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 things	det
4	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Take	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	2 Take	compound:prt
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 Sha	punct
10	Sha	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Sha	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Sha	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
14	So	so	ADV	_	17 sits	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sits	nsubj
17	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sits	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 peels	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mole	det
22	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peels	nsubj
23	peels	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sits	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clothes	nmod:poss
25	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clothes	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 motor	punct
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 peels	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	29 bit	compound:prt
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peels	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 bit	case
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bit	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	that ridiculous things		tree rules
2	sit	present	the Rat		on Badger	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
3	peel	present	the Mole	Badger's motor clothes	off bit by bit obl	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Source

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:9.

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): no change. 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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