The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 24
Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I know.» The Rat: «You are, indeed.
Who acts: Rat, hint, you · What happens: be, mind, know · To what, where: trouble, nuisance · 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 (Rat, hint, you), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Toad | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trouble | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trouble | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trouble | det |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nsubj |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 13 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 17 nuisance | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 nuisance | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 nuisance | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nuisance | det |
| 17 | nuisance | nuisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 nuisance | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 nuisance | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rat | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rat | det |
| 24 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nuisance | nmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 You | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 You | punct |
| 27 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Toad | conj |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 You | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 are | punct |
| 30 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 28 are | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | hint | the trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | present | you | the trouble not said here | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | a nuisance | the Rat nmod | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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): 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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