The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 28
It's only a trouble» — Toad keeps saying «don't bother», which makes the Rat bother all the more.
Who acts: doctor, Toad, Rat · What happens: be, keep, say, not bother, make, bother · To what, where: trouble · 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 (doctor, Toad, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 trouble | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trouble | det |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeps | punct |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 keeps | nsubj |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | parataxis |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 bother | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 bother | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bother | advmod |
| 14 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 bother | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keeps | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rat | det |
| 20 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bother | nsubj |
| 21 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 more | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 bother | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | doctor | a trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | Toad not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not bother | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | bother in a quote | infinitive | the Rat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:28.
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, 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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