The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 32
If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass».
Who acts: nothing, doctor, Rat · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: Rat, old ass · 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 (nothing, doctor, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 's | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | advcl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 's | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 matter | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctor | det |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ass | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ass | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ass | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ass | amod |
| 18 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 » | ccomp |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | the doctor | Rat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Rat | a old ass | 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:32.
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): 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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