The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 4
What's the trouble?» Toad tells him a tale of lost money and hungry children at home.
Who acts: trouble, Toad, lost money · What happens: be, tell, lose · To what, where: tale, washerwoman · 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 (trouble, Toad, lost money), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trouble | det |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 tells | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | nsubj |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tells | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tale | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 children | cc |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 money | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 children | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Toad | a tale of lost money and hungry children at home | washerwoman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell in a quote | lost money and hungry children at home | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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.
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:4.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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