The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 5

Tell me something real about it.» So he tells her about the boathouse, the gardens, the banqueting-hall and his animal friends.

Who acts: you, Toad · What happens: tell · To what, where: something, me, smell · 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, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Tell	obj
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 real	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
9	So	so	ADV	_	11 tells	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tells	nsubj
11	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tells	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 boathouse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boathouse	det
15	boathouse	boathouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tells	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gardens	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gardens	det
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 boathouse	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hall	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hall	det
21	banqueting	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hall	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 banqueting	punct
23	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boathouse	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 friends	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friends	nmod:poss
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 friends	compound
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 boathouse	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	something	me				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Toad		smell			about the boathouse and the gardens and the banqueting hall and Toad's animal friends	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about boathouse=Topic

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:5.

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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