The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 16
The driver: «I fear that you have been indeed a wicked toad, and by rights I ought to give you up to offended justice.
Who acts: Toad, you · What happens: fear, be, ought, give up, offend · To what, where: wicked toad, you · 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, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 fear | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 fear | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 driver | parataxis |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 toad | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 toad | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 toad | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 toad | cop |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 toad | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 toad | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 toad | amod |
| 14 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fear | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ought | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 rights | case |
| 18 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ought | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ought | nsubj |
| 20 | ought | ought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fear | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ought | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 give | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 justice | case |
| 26 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 justice | amod |
| 27 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | Toad | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | you | a wicked toad | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ought in a quote | past | Toad | by rights | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up in a quote | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | you | to offended justice | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to justice=Recipient | |||
| 5 | offend in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:16.
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, 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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