The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 11
Toad confesses: «I am not the simple washerwoman I seem to be!
Who acts: Toad · What happens: confess, not be, seem, be · To what, where: simple washerwoman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» 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), 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 confesses | nsubj |
| 2 | confesses | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 seem | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 washerwoman | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 washerwoman | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 washerwoman | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 washerwoman | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 washerwoman | det |
| 9 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 washerwoman | amod |
| 10 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confesses | ccomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 seem | nsubj |
| 12 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 washerwoman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seem | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 confesses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | present | Toad | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Toad | the simple washerwoman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | Toad | the simple washerwoman not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:11.
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): 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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