The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 28
«You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways).
Who acts: Badger · What happens: backslide, cry, slip back · To what, where: bad ways · 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 (Badger), 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 | _ | 6 cries | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 animal | appos |
| 3 | backsliding | backslide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | vocative |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 animal | punct |
| 6 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Badger | det |
| 8 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 backsliding | punct |
| 10 | backsliding | backslide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Badger | appos |
| 11 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipping | punct |
| 12 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 backsliding | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 slipping | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 ways | case |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ways | amod |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slipping | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipping | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | backslide in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the Badger | backsliding animal vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | backslide | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | slip back | gerund | bad ways | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:28.
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. 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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