The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 11
«It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!» The Water Rat answers «Yes, it's the life, the only life, to live», but «without his usual whole-hearted conviction».
Who acts: river, you, Water Rat, Rat · What happens: be, lead, answer, live, convict · To what, where: goodly life, river, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (river, you, Water Rat, Rat), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 life | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 life | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 life | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 life | det |
| 5 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lead | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 lead | nsubj |
| 9 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 life | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | vocative |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 best | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 doubt | det |
| 14 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 best | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 best | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 life | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 best | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strong | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 strong | mark |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 strong | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 strong | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 strong | cop |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 best | conj |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 strong | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 lead | mark |
| 28 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 strong | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lead | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 strong | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 answers | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Rat | det |
| 33 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Rat | flat |
| 34 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 answers | nsubj |
| 35 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 life | parataxis |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 42 life | punct |
| 37 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 42 life | discourse |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Yes | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 life | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 life | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 life | det |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 answers | ccomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 life | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 life | det |
| 45 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 life | amod |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 life | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 live | punct |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 live | mark |
| 49 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 life | parataxis |
| 50 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 42 life | punct |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 conviction | punct |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 60 conviction | cc |
| 53 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 60 conviction | punct |
| 54 | without | without | ADP | _ | 60 conviction | case |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 conviction | nmod:poss |
| 56 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 conviction | amod |
| 57 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 hearted | amod |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 whole | punct |
| 59 | hearted | heart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 conviction | amod |
| 60 | conviction | conviction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 best | obl |
| 61 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 60 conviction | punct |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 life | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | river | a goodly life | friend vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead in a quote | present | you | a goodly life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | river | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: express | present | the Water Rat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | river | the life | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | convict in a quote | Rat | nom conviction «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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