The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 30
You're so eloquent, dear Badger … you can do what you like with me in there … But I've been searching my mind since … I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really».
Who acts: You, I, my · What happens: be, do, like, search, find, not be · To what, where: mind · 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 (You, I, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eloquent | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eloquent | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 eloquent | advmod |
| 4 | eloquent | eloquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Badger | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Badger | amod |
| 7 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eloquent | conj |
| 8 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eloquent | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 there | case |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 like | obl |
| 19 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 24 searching | punct |
| 20 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 searching | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 searching | nsubj |
| 22 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 searching | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 searching | aux |
| 24 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 eloquent | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 searching | obj |
| 27 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 28 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 27 since | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 find | nsubj |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 searching | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 sorry | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 sorry | nsubj |
| 33 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sorry | cop |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 sorry | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bit | det |
| 36 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sorry | obl |
| 37 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 find | ccomp |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 repentant | cc |
| 39 | repentant | repentant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sorry | conj |
| 40 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 sorry | advmod |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 eloquent | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eloquent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | eloquent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | like | present | you | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | search | present · perfect · progressive | I | my mind | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mind=Location | ||||
| 5 | find | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is | present | I | a bit obl; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:30.
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, R7-rel-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.
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