The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 25
But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.»
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, take, be · To what, where: you, trouble, earth, sensible animal · 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 (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 trouble | det |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trouble | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 animal | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 animal | mark |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 animal | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 animal | nsubj |
| 19 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 animal | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 animal | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 animal | det |
| 22 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 animal | amod |
| 23 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 25 | » | » | SYM | _ | 3 tell | discourse |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | would | I | any trouble | earth | for you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on earth=Destination | ||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | would | you | a sensible animal | 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:25.
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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