The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 18
«The sign of “The Red Lion”» reminds him «that he had not breakfasted that day».
Who acts: sign · What happens: remind, not breakfast, sign · To what, where: Lion, Red Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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 (sign), 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 | _ | 11 reminds | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reminds | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lion | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 7 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lion | compound |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | nmod |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lion | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lion | punct |
| 11 | reminds | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reminds | obj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 breakfasted | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 breakfasted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 breakfasted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 breakfasted | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 breakfasted | advmod |
| 18 | breakfasted | breakfast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 reminds | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breakfasted | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 breakfasted | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reminds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | present | the sign of the Red Lion | Lion | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not breakfast in a quote | past · perfect | sign | day | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sign in a quote | the Red Lion | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:18.
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 ×3, 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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