The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 30
Toad asks for «the lawyer» too: «there are moments—perhaps I should say there is a moment—when one must face disagreeable tasks» (as if he were dying and needed to make a will).
Who acts: Toad, moments, moment, one · What happens: ask, be, say, face, die, need · To what, where: disagreeable tasks, will · 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 (Toad, moments, moment, one), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 lawyer | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 lawyer | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lawyer | det |
| 6 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 lawyer | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 asks | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 13 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 say | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | aux |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 face | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 face | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 27 face | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 face | aux |
| 27 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 moment | appos |
| 28 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tasks | amod |
| 29 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 face | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 dying | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 dying | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 dying | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dying | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dying | aux |
| 36 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 is | advcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 needed | cc |
| 38 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dying | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 needed | xcomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 will | det |
| 42 | will | will | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 dying | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Toad | for the lawyer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | moments | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | should | Toad | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a moment | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | face in a quote | must | one | disagreeable tasks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme task=Destination | ||||
| 6 | die | past · progressive | Toad | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | need | past | Toad not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | a will | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset will=Product |
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:30.
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 ×2, 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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