The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 14
Toad, says the Badger, keeps saying «O leave him alone, he wants nothing, perhaps he'll be better presently, it may pass off in time, don't be unduly anxious».
Who acts: Toad, key · What happens: say, keep, leave, want, be, pass off · To what, where: Badger, Toad, nothing · 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 (Toad, key), 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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Badger | det |
| 5 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 leave | discourse |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 leave | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wants | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wants | nsubj |
| 16 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | parataxis |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 wants | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pass | punct |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 presently | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 presently | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 presently | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 presently | cop |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 presently | advmod |
| 24 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 28 pass | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pass | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pass | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 pass | aux |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wants | parataxis |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 pass | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 anxious | aux |
| 34 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 anxious | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 anxious | cop |
| 36 | unduly | unduly | ADV | _ | 37 anxious | advmod |
| 37 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pass | parataxis |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 anxious | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Toad | the Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent badger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Toad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Toad not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | Toad | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | Toad | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | future | Toad | perhaps, presently, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pass off in a quote | may | key | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | anxious, unduly 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.
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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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