The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 15
I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; calling someone «common» or «fat» to hurt them is unkind.
Who acts: bargewoman · What happens: not laugh, call, hurt, be · To what, where: I, someone, » · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (bargewoman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laughed | aux:pass |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 laughed | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bargewoman | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bargewoman | det |
| 9 | bargewoman | bargewoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl:agent |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 words | punct |
| 13 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rude | punct |
| 15 | snobbish | snobbish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laughed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 calling | punct |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 laughed | advcl |
| 19 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 calling | obj |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 common | punct |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 » | amod |
| 22 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 calling | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 fat | cc |
| 24 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fat | amod |
| 25 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 » | conj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 fat | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hurt | mark |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 unkind | csubj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hurt | obj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 unkind | cop |
| 31 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughed | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not laugh | future · passive | a bargewoman | I | rude snobbish words obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call in a quote | gerund | a bargewoman not said here | someone | common » or « fat obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hurt in a quote | to-infinitive | » | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | unkind 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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:15.
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, R6-punct-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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