The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 38
The Badger fears Toad will be so proud of his clever trick that he may do any silly thing now.
Who acts: Badger, Toad, Rat · What happens: fear, be, do, trick · To what, where: silly thing
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 (Badger, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fears | nsubj |
| 3 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proud | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 proud | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proud | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 proud | advmod |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fears | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trick | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 trick | nmod:poss |
| 11 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trick | amod |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proud | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proud | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | the Badger | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | future | Toad | of Rat's clever trick; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | may | Rat | any silly thing | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | trick | Rat | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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.
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:38.
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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