The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 29
«Surely you have noticed of late——» … «To-morrow, indeed, you may be saying to yourself, ‘O, if only I had noticed sooner!’» — he wants the Rat to feel guilty.
Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: notice, say, want, feel · To what, where: yourself, Rat · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | aux |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 noticed | obl |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 late | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 … | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 … | punct |
| 11 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| 13 | To | to | ADP | _ | 15 morrow | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 To | punct |
| 15 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 … | punct |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 saying | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 saying | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 saying | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 saying | aux |
| 22 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 noticed | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 yourself | case |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 saying | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticed | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticed | punct |
| 27 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 33 noticed | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 O | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 noticed | mark |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 noticed | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 noticed | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 noticed | aux |
| 33 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 noticed | advmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticed | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticed | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 wants | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wants | nsubj |
| 40 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Rat | det |
| 42 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wants | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 feel | mark |
| 44 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wants | xcomp |
| 45 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 feel | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice in a quote | present · perfect | you | late, surely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | may · progressive | you | yourself | to morrow; indeed property | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to morrow=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | notice a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the Rat = rat | soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | want | present | Rat | the Rat | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | guilty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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): no change. 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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