The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 16
«Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong»: «You are a good, kind, clever girl ... and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad.»
Who acts: Honest Toad, You, girl · What happens: be, admit · To what, where: Toad, wrong, good kind clever girl
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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 (Honest Toad, You, girl), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 2 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Toad | amod |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 admit | mark |
| 8 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 admit | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wrong | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wrong | det |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admit | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 girl | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 girl | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 girl | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 21 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kind | punct |
| 23 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | parataxis |
| 25 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 31 proud | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 proud | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 proud | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 proud | cop |
| 29 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 31 proud | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 proud | det |
| 31 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 toad | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 toad | det |
| 34 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 toad | amod |
| 35 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 proud | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Honest Toad | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Honest Toad not said here | Toad | the wrong | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in wrong=Location | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | You | a good kind clever girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | girl | indeed, proud property | tree rules |
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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:16.
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): 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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