The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 18
He chooses these «remembering the stranger's origin and preferences», and «blushed for pleasure at the old seaman's commendations» (praise).
Who acts: garlic, old seaman · What happens: choose, remember, blush, commend · To what, where: origin, commendations
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (garlic, old seaman), 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 | 2 chooses | nsubj |
| 2 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 remembering | det |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembering | punct |
| 5 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 chooses | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 origin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 stranger | case |
| 9 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remembering | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 preferences | cc |
| 11 | preferences | preference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 origin | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembering | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blushed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blushed | cc |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 blushed | punct |
| 16 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chooses | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 pleasure | case |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blushed | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 commendations | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 seaman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 seaman | amod |
| 22 | seaman | seaman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commendations | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 seaman | case |
| 24 | commendations | commendation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blushed | obl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 praise | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 praise | punct |
| 27 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commendations | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 praise | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chooses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | garlic | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | gerund | the stranger's origin and preferences | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent origin=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blush in a quote | past | garlic not said here | the old seaman's commendations and praise | for pleasure | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | commend in a quote | the old seaman | nom commendation «communication 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.
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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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