The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 1
The gaoler's kind daughter, who loves animals, asks to look after him.
Who acts: kind daughter · What happens: love, ask, look · To what, where: animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (kind daughter), 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 gaoler | det |
| 2 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 gaoler | case |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loves | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loves | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 loves | nsubj |
| 8 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loves | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 loves | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asks | xcomp |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the gaoler's kind daughter | animals | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the gaoler's kind daughter not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gaoler's kind daughter not said here | after him = he | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:1.
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. 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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