The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 38
The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the poison has worked itself out of his system».
Who acts: poison · What happens: not leave, work · To what, where: Badger, poison, system
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 (poison), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Badger | punct |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 left | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Badger | parataxis |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 instant | det |
| 11 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | unguarded | unguard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 left | xcomp |
| 13 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 18 worked | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 worked | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 poison | det |
| 16 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worked | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worked | aux |
| 18 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 left | advcl |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 worked | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 system | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 system | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 system | nmod:poss |
| 23 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worked | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Badger | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Badger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave in a quote | must · passive | Badger | a instant obl:unmarked; unguard property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work in a quote | present · perfect | the poison | poison | Badger's system | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material |
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:38.
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): 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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