The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 18
The clerk laughs: «I should think you were pretty well known in these parts ... if you've tried this game on often»; «you're obstructing the other passengers» (obstructing = blocking).
Who acts: clerk, I, you · What happens: laugh, think, know, try, obstruct, block · To what, where: you, parts, game, other passengers · 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 (clerk, I, you), 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 clerk | det |
| 2 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughs | nsubj |
| 3 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laughs | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 known | advmod |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 think | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 parts | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 parts | det |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 known | obl |
| 17 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 tried | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tried | aux |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 think | advcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 game | det |
| 23 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 tried | advmod |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 on | advmod |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 obstructing | punct |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 obstructing | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 obstructing | nsubj |
| 30 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 obstructing | aux |
| 31 | obstructing | obstruct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 think | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 passengers | det |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 passengers | amod |
| 34 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 obstructing | obj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 obstructing | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 obstructing | punct |
| 37 | obstructing | obstruct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 obstructing | parataxis |
| 38 | = | = | SYM | _ | 39 blocking | punct |
| 39 | blocking | block | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 obstructing | conj |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 blocking | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | the clerk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | should | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past · passive | you | this parts | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | try a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | this game | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | obstruct in a quote | present · progressive | you | the other passengers | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obstruct | gerund | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 7 | block | gerund | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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:18.
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 ×2, 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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