The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 9
He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating character by repartees» (repartees = quick clever answers).
Who acts: washerwoman · What happens: be, not go, support · To what, where: town, humiliating character
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), 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 | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 support | cc |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 support | punct |
| 12 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 character | det |
| 14 | humiliating | humiliate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 character | amod |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 support | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 repartees | case |
| 17 | repartees | repartee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 support | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 repartees | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 repartees | punct |
| 20 | repartees | repartee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 repartees | conj |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 answers | punct |
| 22 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 answers | amod |
| 23 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 answers | amod |
| 24 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 repartees | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 answers | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | washerwoman | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go | to-infinitive | washerwoman not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | support in a quote | infinitive | washerwoman not said here | this humiliating character | by repartees and repartees | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer character=Stimulus |
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:9.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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