The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 30

Real courts don't work like this — the writer is mocking judges who care most about their own importance.

Who acts: Real courts, writer, judges · What happens: not work, mock, care · To what, where: judges

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 (Real courts, writer, judges), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 courts	amod
2	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 work	obl
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 mocking	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 writer	det
10	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mocking	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mocking	aux
12	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 work	parataxis
13	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mocking	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 care	nsubj
15	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 judges	acl:relcl
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 care	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	20 importance	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 importance	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 importance	amod
20	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 care	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Real courts		like this	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mock	present · progressive	the writer	judges		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=Theme
3	care	present	judges		about judges's own importance	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about importance=Stimulus

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:30.

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): R7-rel-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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