The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 27

She lets him talk on and on, because she sees that talking about himself does him as much good as the tea.

Who acts: smell, Toad, talking · What happens: let, talk, see, do · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (smell, Toad, talking), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	obj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sees	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 sees	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sees	nsubj
11	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lets	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 does	mark
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 does	csubj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 talking	obl
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sees	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 does	obj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 does	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 tea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tea	det
23	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 good	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	present	smell	Toad		tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	Toad not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	present	smell			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	talk	gerund			about Toad	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic
5	do	present	talking	Toad	good obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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:27.

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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