The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 21

The Badger: «Toad has at last seen the error of his ways … he has undertaken (promised) to give up motor-cars entirely and for ever.»

Who acts: Badger, Toad, ways · What happens: see, undertake, promise, give up, err · To what, where: error, ways, motor cars

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 (Badger, Toad, ways), 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	9 seen	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Toad	punct
5	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 has	obl
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 error	det
11	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ways	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ways	nmod:poss
14	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 error	nmod
15	…	…	PUNCT	_	18 undertaken	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 undertaken	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 undertaken	aux
18	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ways	acl:relcl
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 promised	punct
20	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 undertaken	parataxis
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 promised	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 undertaken	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 give	compound:prt
25	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cars	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 motor	punct
27	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
28	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	23 give	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ever	cc
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 ever	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 entirely	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	the Badger	the error of Toad's ways		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer error=Stimulus
2	undertake in a quote	present · perfect	Toad	Toad's ways not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	participle				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give up in a quote	to-infinitive	Toad not said here	motor cars	entirely property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Source
5	err in a quote		Toad's ways			nom error «act intransitive»: of=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:21.

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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