The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 29
The barge-woman laughs till she cries: «I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.»
Who acts: barge woman, woman, I, you · What happens: laugh, cry, think, be, talk · To what, where: humbug, conceited way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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 (barge woman, woman, I, 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 | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 barge | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughs | nsubj |
| 5 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 cries | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cries | nsubj |
| 8 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughs | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughs | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 humbug | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 humbug | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 humbug | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 humbug | det |
| 17 | humbug | humbug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 along | advmod |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 humbug | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 way | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 humbug | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 talked | nsubj |
| 26 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughs | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | the barge woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | you | a humbug | the conceited way | along property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | talk in a quote | past | you | the conceited way not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:29.
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): no change. 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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