The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 12
The Rat asks: «Couldn't you stop on for just this year?»
Who acts: Rat, you · What happens: ask, not stop on · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (Rat, 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 6 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 stop | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stop | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 year | advmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 year | det |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Rat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not stop on in a quote | could | you | year | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-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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