The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 36
That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, tell, do · To what, where: old idea · 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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 idea | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 idea | amod |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 shameful | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 shameful | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shameful | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shameful | cop |
| 10 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 idea | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shameful | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | ccomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a old idea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a man obl; shameful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | by women | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:36.
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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