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 25
The book calls the man a «gipsy» and says gipsies were «very fond of horse-dealing».
Who acts: book, gipsies · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: man · 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 (book, gipsies), 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 | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gipsy | det |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 gipsy | punct |
| 8 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | xcomp |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 gipsy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 says | cc |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | conj |
| 12 | gipsies | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fond | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fond | cop |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 fond | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 fond | advmod |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 says | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dealing | case |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dealing | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dealing | punct |
| 20 | dealing | dealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fond | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 fond | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the book | the man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the book not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | gipsies | of horse dealing; fond 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:25.
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 ×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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