The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 21
The girl «hook-and-eyes» him into the gown (fastens it with little hooks), laughing: «You're the very image of her ... only I'm sure you never looked half so respectable in all your life before.»
Who acts: girl, You, aunt · What happens: hook, eye, fasten, laugh, be, not look · To what, where: book, gown, job, very image · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, You, aunt), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hook | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
| 4 | hook | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hook | cc |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
| 8 | eyes | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hook | conj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hook | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 gown | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gown | det |
| 13 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hook | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 fastens | punct |
| 15 | fastens | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hook | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fastens | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hooks | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hooks | amod |
| 19 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fastens | obl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 fastens | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hook | punct |
| 22 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hook | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 image | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 image | punct |
| 25 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 image | nsubj |
| 26 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 image | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 image | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 image | amod |
| 29 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laughing | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 image | nmod |
| 32 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 sure | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 sure | nsubj |
| 35 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sure | cop |
| 36 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 image | parataxis |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 looked | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 looked | advmod |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 39 looked | advmod |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 respectable | advmod |
| 42 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | xcomp |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 life | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 life | det:predet |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 life | nmod:poss |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 respectable | obl |
| 47 | before | before | ADV | _ | 39 looked | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 image | punct |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 image | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hook in a quote | present | the girl | book | the gown | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eye in a quote | present | the girl not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fasten | present | job | with little hooks | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hook=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | the girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | You | the very image | of girl | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | aunt | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not look in a quote | past | you | before, half, respectable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:21.
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 ×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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