The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 31

«On the contrary, I faithfully promise that the very first motor-car I see, poop-poop! off I go in it!» The Rat to the Mole: «Told you so, didn't I?»

Who acts: I · What happens: promise, see, go, tell · To what, where: contrary, first motor car, Rat, poop, you · 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 (I), 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	_	8 promise	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	4 contrary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 contrary	det
4	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 promise	nsubj
7	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	8 promise	advmod
8	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 car	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 car	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 first	advmod
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 car	amod
13	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 car	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 motor	punct
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	ccomp
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 car	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 poop	punct
19	poop	poop	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 poop	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 poop	punct
21	poop	poop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 car	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
23	off	off	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Rat	det
31	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Mole	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Mole	det
34	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Rat	nmod
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 «	punct
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 Told	punct
37	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 Told	iobj
39	so	so	ADV	_	37 Told	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 so	punct
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Told	parataxis
42	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 did	advmod
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 did	nsubj
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	I			the contrary	faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	I	the first motor car and poop poop not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
3	go in a quote	present	I	the Rat to the Mole		poop	off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in it=Location
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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:31.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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