The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 36
Talk in this lesson: «yeet» = throw hard; «ate and left no crumbs» = did it perfectly; «gutted» (UK) = very disappointed; «rad» (older US) = great; «robot» (South Africa) = traffic light.
Who acts: you, robot · What happens: talk, throw, leave, do, gut, light · To what, where: lesson, crumbs, ate · 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 (you, robot), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 yeet | punct |
| 7 | yeet | yeet | X | _ | 4 lesson | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 yeet | punct |
| 9 | = | = | SYM | _ | 7 yeet | punct |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 yeet | parataxis |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 throw | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ate | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 ate | punct |
| 14 | ate | ate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yeet | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ate | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 crumbs | det |
| 18 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 ate | punct |
| 20 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | obj |
| 23 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 21 did | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gutted | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 gutted | punct |
| 26 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 gutted | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 UK | punct |
| 29 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gutted | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 UK | punct |
| 31 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 33 disappointed | punct |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 disappointed | advmod |
| 33 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gutted | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 » | punct |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 rad | punct |
| 36 | rad | rad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disappointed | obl |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 rad | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 US | punct |
| 39 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 US | amod |
| 40 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rad | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 US | punct |
| 42 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 43 great | punct |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 disappointed | conj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 light | punct |
| 45 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 46 robot | punct |
| 46 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 light | nsubj |
| 47 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 46 robot | punct |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 Africa | punct |
| 49 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Africa | compound |
| 50 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 robot | appos |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 Africa | punct |
| 52 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 54 light | punct |
| 53 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 light | compound |
| 54 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disappointed | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | infinitive | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | you not said here | no crumbs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | ate | perfectly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | gut in a quote | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | light | robot | tree rules |
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:36.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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