The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 25
The Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates (the judges of a local court) calls Toad «the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian» (incorrigible = can't be made better) and asks how to «make it sufficiently hot» for him.
Who acts: Chairman · What happens: call, harden, not make, ask, make · To what, where: Toad, incorrigible · 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 (Chairman), 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 Chairman | det |
| 2 | Chairman | chairman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Bench | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bench | det |
| 5 | Bench | bench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chairman | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Magistrates | case |
| 7 | Magistrates | magistrate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Bench | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 judges | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 judges | det |
| 10 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Magistrates | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 court | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 court | det |
| 13 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 court | amod |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 judges | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 judges | punct |
| 16 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | obj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 rogue | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rogue | det |
| 20 | incorrigible | incorrigible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rogue | compound |
| 21 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Toad | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ruffian | cc |
| 23 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ruffian | amod |
| 24 | ruffian | ruffian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rogue | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 rogue | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 incorrigible | punct |
| 27 | incorrigible | incorrigible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rogue | parataxis |
| 28 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 rogue | punct |
| 29 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 made | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 incorrigible | acl |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 made | xcomp |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 better | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 asks | cc |
| 36 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 calls | conj |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 make | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 39 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 asks | xcomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 43 hot | advmod |
| 43 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 make | xcomp |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates | Toad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | harden in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not make | can · passive | incorrigible not said here | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates not said here | incorrigible | for Toad; hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for he=Beneficiary |
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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