The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 19
An old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «his good woman, which angered Toad more than anything»: proud Toad hates being taken for a poor working woman, an old snobbish feeling.
Who acts: old gentleman, good woman, proud Toad · What happens: push away, call, anger, hate, take, work · To what, where: clerk, Toad · 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 (old gentleman, good woman, proud Toad), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gentleman | amod |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushes | nsubj |
| 4 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushes | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 pushes | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 calls | cc |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushes | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 calls | obj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 woman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Toad | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 angered | nsubj |
| 16 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 woman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 angered | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 angered | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 » | case |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 more | obl |
| 21 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 angered | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushes | punct |
| 23 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Toad | amod |
| 24 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hates | nsubj |
| 25 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushes | parataxis |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 taken | aux:pass |
| 27 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 hates | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 woman | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woman | amod |
| 31 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 woman | amod |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taken | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 feeling | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 feeling | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feeling | amod |
| 36 | snobbish | snobbish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feeling | amod |
| 37 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | present | a old gentleman | clerk | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present | a old gentleman not said here | clerk | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | anger in a quote | past | clerk's good woman and a old snobbish feeling | Toad | than » | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus toad=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | hate | present | proud Toad | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | gerund · passive | proud Toad not said here | for a poor working woman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for woman=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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.
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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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