The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 3
But the Rat thinks he sees a twinkle in Toad's sorrowful eye.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: think, see · To what, where: twinkle, sorrowful eye · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 thinks | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sees | nsubj |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 twinkle | det |
| 8 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Toad | case |
| 12 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eye | amod |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twinkle | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Rat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | present | Rat | a twinkle | Toad's sorrowful eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twinkle=Stimulus |
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:3.
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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