The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 0
«Talking to Toad'll never cure him,» says the Rat.
Who acts: Talking, Rat · What happens: talk, not cure, say · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 (Talking, Rat), 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 | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 2 | Talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cure | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Talking | obl |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cure | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 cure | advmod |
| 7 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cure | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cure | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | gerund | Toad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to toad=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | not cure in a quote | future | Talking | Toad | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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