The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 1

«He'll say anything.» Through the door they hear the Badger's voice droning on and on, and then — long sobs from Toad.

Who acts: Rat, they, voice · What happens: say, hear, drone · To what, where: anything, voice, door · 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 (Rat, they, voice), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
8	Through	through	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
12	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Badger	det
14	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 voice	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Badger	case
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
17	droning	drone	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 voice	acl
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 droning	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 on	cc
20	on	on	ADV	_	18 on	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sobs	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sobs	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 long	advmod
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 then	punct
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sobs	amod
26	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 Toad	case
28	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sobs	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	future	Rat	anything			tree rules
2	hear	present	they	the Badger's voice	the door	long sobs from Toad obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	drone	gerund	the Badger's voice not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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