The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 31
The Rat: «It's best to be on the safe side … I've never heard him ask for a lawyer!
Who acts: Rat, Toad · What happens: be, not hear, ask · To what, where: safe side, 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 (Rat, Toad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 best | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 best | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 best | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 best | expl |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | cop |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 heard | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 side | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 side | cop |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 best | csubj |
| 14 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 best | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 heard | advmod |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | obj |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 lawyer | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lawyer | det |
| 23 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Rat | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the safe side | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | Toad | Rat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Rat not said here | for a lawyer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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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