The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 31
Talk in this lesson: «mardy» (Midlands) = sulky; «peng» (London) = tasty, great; «ate» = did brilliantly; «dreich» (Scotland) = dreary; «don't have a cow» (older US) = calm down.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, mardy, peng, do, not have, calm down · To what, where: lesson, cow · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 mardy | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 mardy | punct |
| 7 | mardy | mardy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 mardy | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Midlands | punct |
| 10 | Midlands | midland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mardy | parataxis |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Midlands | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 13 sulky | punct |
| 13 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mardy | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 peng | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 peng | punct |
| 16 | peng | peng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 peng | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 London | punct |
| 19 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 peng | parataxis |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 London | punct |
| 21 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 22 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 peng | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tasty | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 calm | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 27 | ate | ate | ADV | Typo=Yes | 54 calm | advmod |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 29 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ate | parataxis |
| 31 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 30 did | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 dreich | punct |
| 34 | dreich | dreich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dreary | nsubj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 dreich | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 Scotland | punct |
| 37 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 dreich | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Scotland | punct |
| 39 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 40 dreary | punct |
| 40 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 43 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 44 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 have | advmod |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 40 dreary | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 cow | det |
| 47 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 48 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 US | punct |
| 50 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 51 US | amod |
| 51 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 have | parataxis |
| 52 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 US | punct |
| 53 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 54 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 55 | down | down | ADP | _ | 54 calm | compound:prt |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | mardy in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | peng in a quote | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | you not said here | a cow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | calm down | infinitive | ate property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:31.
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, R5-strong ×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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