The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 22
«I hate being a burden to my friends, and I do not expect to be one much longer.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: hate, be, not expect · To what, where: burden, one
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 (Rat), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 hate | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 burden | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 burden | det |
| 6 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hate | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burden | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expect | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 expect | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 expect | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 expect | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 expect | advmod |
| 15 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hate | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 expect | xcomp |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 expect | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | the Rat = rat not said here | a burden | to my friends | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not expect in a quote | present · do-support | the Rat = rat | long property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Rat = rat not said here | one | 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:22.
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. 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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