The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 28

He tells her about the boathouse, the fish-pond, the walled kitchen-garden, the pig-styes, the stables, the dairy, the linen-presses («she liked that bit especially») and the banqueting-hall.

Who acts: Toad, smell · What happens: tell, wall, like · To what, where: smell, bit · 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 (Toad, smell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 boathouse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boathouse	det
6	boathouse	boathouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pond	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pond	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fish	punct
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boathouse	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 garden	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
14	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 garden	amod
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 garden	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 kitchen	punct
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pond	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 styes	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 styes	det
20	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 styes	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pig	punct
22	styes	stye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pond	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stables	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stables	det
25	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pond	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dairy	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dairy	det
28	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pond	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 presses	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 presses	det
31	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 presses	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 linen	punct
33	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pond	conj
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 liked	punct
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 liked	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 liked	nsubj
37	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 presses	acl:relcl
38	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	39 bit	det
39	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 liked	obj
40	especially	especially	ADV	_	37 liked	advmod
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 liked	punct
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 liked	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 hall	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hall	det
45	banqueting	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hall	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 banqueting	punct
47	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boathouse	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Toad		smell	about the boathouse and the fish pond and the walled kitchen garden and the pig styes and the stables and the dairy and the linen presses and the banqueting hall	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about boathouse=Topic
2	wall	participle					tree rules
3	like in a quote	past	smell	that bit		especially property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bit=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:28.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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