The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 17
Talking to Toad'll never cure him.
Who acts: Talking · What happens: talk, not cure · To what, where: Toad
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), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cure | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Toad | case |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cure | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 cure | advmod |
| 6 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cure | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | Toad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to toad=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | not cure | future | Talking | Toad | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:17.
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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