The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 3
«The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets.»
Who acts: word · What happens: be
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 (word), 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 | _ | 9 worth | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thought | det |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | conj |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 9 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 blankets | nummod |
| 11 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 worth | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 worth | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the word and the thought | worth property | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R7-rel-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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