The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 23
Toad keeps his temper, though he finds their jokes «poor and clumsy».
Who acts: Toad, ideas · What happens: keep, find, temper, joke · To what, where: temper, jokes
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 (Toad, ideas), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 temper | nmod:poss |
| 4 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finds | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 finds | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finds | nsubj |
| 8 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 jokes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 finds | obj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 poor | punct |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jokes | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 clumsy | cc |
| 14 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poor | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 poor | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Toad | Toad's temper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | Toad | ideas's jokes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic | ||||
| 3 | temper | Toad | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | joke | ideas = idea | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:23.
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): R6-punct-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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