The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 15
The Badger's warning: «When Toad's quiet and submissive and playing at being the hero of a Sunday-school prize, then he's at his artfullest.
Who acts: Toad, Badger · What happens: be, play, warn · To what, where: Toad, hero
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, Badger), 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 | 4 warning | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Badger | case |
| 4 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 quiet | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 quiet | punct |
| 7 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 quiet | advmod |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 quiet | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Toad | cop |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 artfullest | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 submissive | cc |
| 12 | submissive | submissive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 quiet | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 playing | cc |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 quiet | conj |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 hero | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hero | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hero | det |
| 18 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 playing | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 prize | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prize | det |
| 21 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 school | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sunday | punct |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prize | compound |
| 24 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hero | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prize | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 artfullest | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 artfullest | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 artfullest | cop |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 artfullest | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 artfullest | nmod:poss |
| 31 | artfullest | artfull | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 warning | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 warning | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | gerund | Toad not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | gerund | Toad not said here | the hero | of a school prize | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Toad | then | artfull property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | warn | the Badger | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:15.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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