The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 1
The Badger warns him at the door: when Toad is quiet and meek, playing the good little hero of a Sunday-school prize book, that's when he is at his trickiest.
Who acts: Badger, Toad, that · What happens: warn, be, play · To what, where: Toad, door, good little hero · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 (Badger, Toad, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warns | nsubj |
| 3 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warns | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warns | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 quiet | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 quiet | advmod |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 quiet | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | cop |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warns | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meek | cc |
| 14 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quiet | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 playing | punct |
| 16 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 quiet | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hero | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hero | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hero | amod |
| 20 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 playing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 book | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 book | det |
| 23 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 school | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sunday | punct |
| 25 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prize | compound |
| 26 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 book | compound |
| 27 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hero | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 's | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 's | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | parataxis |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 trickiest | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 trickiest | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 trickiest | cop |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 trickiest | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 trickiest | nmod:poss |
| 36 | trickiest | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 's | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | the Badger | Toad | the door | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Toad | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Toad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | play | gerund | Toad not said here | the good little hero of a prize book | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Toad | tricky property | tree rules |
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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:1.
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 ×1. 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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