The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 7
She tells him: «You talk too much, that's your chief fault, and I'm trying to think, and you hurt my head.»
Who acts: gate, Toad, that · What happens: tell, talk, be, try, think, hurt · To what, where: Toad, chief fault, head · 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 (gate, Toad, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | iobj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 talk | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 talk | nsubj |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 talk | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fault | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fault | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fault | cop |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nmod:poss |
| 14 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fault | amod |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trying | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 trying | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trying | aux |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 talk | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 think | mark |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trying | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurt | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trying | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurt | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | gate | Toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | present | Toad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | your chief fault | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try in a quote | present · progressive | gate | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | gate not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hurt in a quote | past | Toad | my head | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient |
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:7.
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 ×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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