The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 2

He tries his grand old manner, «I'm well-known in these parts», but the clerk laughs at the «madam», and an old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «my good woman», which makes Toad angrier than anything.

Who acts: washerwoman, old gentleman, clerk, good woman · What happens: try, be, laugh, push away, call, make · To what, where: grand old manner, parts, washerwoman, 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 (washerwoman, old gentleman, clerk, good woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tries	nsubj
2	tries	try	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	6 manner	nmod:poss
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 manner	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 manner	amod
6	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tries	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 known	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 known	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 known	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	known	know	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tries	conj
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	_	13 known	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laughs	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 laughs	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clerk	det
21	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughs	nsubj
22	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tries	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 madam	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 madam	det
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 madam	punct
26	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughs	obl
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 madam	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pushes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pushes	cc
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 gentleman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gentleman	amod
32	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pushes	nsubj
33	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 laughs	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pushes	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 pushes	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 calls	cc
37	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 pushes	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 calls	obj
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	42 woman	punct
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 woman	nmod:poss
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 woman	amod
42	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 calls	xcomp
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	42 woman	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 makes	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 makes	nsubj
46	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 woman	acl:relcl
47	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 makes	obj
48	angrier	angry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 makes	xcomp
49	than	than	ADP	_	50 anything	case
50	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 angrier	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present	washerwoman	washerwoman's grand old manner				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	a old gentleman = gentleman			this parts	know, well property	tree rules
3	laugh	present	the clerk				at the madam	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	push away	present	a old gentleman	washerwoman			away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	call speech: assert	present	a old gentleman not said here		washerwoman			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	make	present	my good woman	Toad			angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset toad=Product

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:2.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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