The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 6
By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a little song and sleeps well; as the days pass the girl feels sorry for him, and vain Toad thinks she admires him enormously.
Who acts: Toad, days, girl, vain Toad · What happens: be, sing, sleep, pass, feel, think · To what, where: old cheerful satisfied self, little song, 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 (Toad, days, girl, vain 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 bedtime | case |
| 2 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 self | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 self | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 self | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 self | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 self | amod |
| 7 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 self | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheerful | punct |
| 9 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 satisfied | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 self | punct |
| 11 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 self | amod |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sings | punct |
| 14 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 self | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 song | amod |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sings | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleeps | cc |
| 19 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sings | conj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 sleeps | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 pass | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pass | nsubj |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 feels | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feels | nsubj |
| 28 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 self | parataxis |
| 29 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feels | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sorry | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thinks | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thinks | cc |
| 34 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Toad | amod |
| 35 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 thinks | nsubj |
| 36 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 feels | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 admires | nsubj |
| 38 | admires | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 thinks | ccomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 admires | obj |
| 40 | enormously | enormously | ADV | _ | 38 admires | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Toad | Toad's old cheerful satisfied self | by bedtime | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | Toad not said here | a little song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | Toad not said here | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pass | present | the days | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | the girl | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | present | vain Toad | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | admire | present | girl | Toad | enormously property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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