The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 11
For several weeks he refuses «his meals or intermediate light refreshments» (snacks between meals).
Who acts: Toad · What happens: refuse · To what, where: meals
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 (Toad), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 weeks | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weeks | amod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 refuses | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 refuses | nsubj |
| 5 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 meals | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meals | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 refuses | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 refreshments | cc |
| 10 | intermediate | intermediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 refreshments | amod |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refreshments | compound |
| 12 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meals | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 meals | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 snacks | punct |
| 15 | snacks | snack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meals | appos |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 meals | case |
| 17 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 snacks | nmod |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 snacks | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuses | 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 | refuse | present | Toad | Toad's meals or intermediate light refreshments | week | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-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.
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