The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 20
Toad blames «the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials» (pettifogging = fussy about small things) — really it is his own fault.
Who acts: Toad, mistrustfulness · What happens: blame, pettifog, pay, be · To what, where: pettifogging mistrustfulness, own fault
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 (Toad, mistrustfulness), 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 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blames | nsubj |
| 2 | blames | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 mistrustfulness | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mistrustfulness | det |
| 5 | pettifogging | pettifog | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mistrustfulness | amod |
| 6 | mistrustfulness | mistrustfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blames | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 officials | case |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 officials | amod |
| 9 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mistrustfulness | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 mistrustfulness | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 pettifogging | punct |
| 12 | pettifogging | pettifog | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 blames | parataxis |
| 13 | = | = | SYM | _ | 14 fussy | punct |
| 14 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pettifogging | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 things | case |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fussy | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 fussy | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fussy | punct |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 fault | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fault | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fault | cop |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fault | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fault | amod |
| 25 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blames | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blames | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | Toad | the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistrustfulness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pettifog in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pettifog | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | mistrustfulness | Toad's own fault | tree rules |
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:20.
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): R6-punct-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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