The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 29
The joke: cheek gets the biggest punishment, much more than stealing.
Who acts: joke · What happens: get, steal · To what, where: biggest punishment
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 (joke), 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 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheek | punct |
| 4 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 punishment | det |
| 7 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 punishment | amod |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 punishment | amod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 stealing | mark |
| 13 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 more | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the joke | the biggest punishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:29.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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