The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 15
In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ...
Who acts: squire, washerwoman · What happens: be, say, find, leave, blend · To what, where: country landowner, blend, purse, Squire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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 (squire, washerwoman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 blend | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 blend | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 blend | det |
| 4 | blend | blend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 says | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Squire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Squire | det |
| 7 | Squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blend | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Don | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Don | det |
| 10 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Don | compound |
| 11 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Squire | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Don | flat |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 landowner | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 squire | det |
| 15 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 landowner | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 landowner | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 landowner | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 landowner | compound |
| 19 | landowner | landowner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Don | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 don | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 don | det |
| 22 | don | don | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 landowner | nmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 teacher | det |
| 24 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 teacher | compound |
| 25 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 don | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 landowner | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 find | nsubj |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | ccomp |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 34 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | aux |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 find | ccomp |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 purse | nmod:poss |
| 37 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | obj |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 35 left | advmod |
| 39 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | 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 | a squire | a country landowner | a don a university teacher nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | washerwoman | a blend of the Squire and the College Don | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | washerwoman | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | washerwoman | my purse | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | |||
| 5 | blend in a quote | the Squire and the College Don | nom blend «event transitive»: of=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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:15.
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 ×1, 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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