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 29
At first he said he couldn't: who would take the washing home to his customers?
Who acts: horse · What happens: say, take · To what, where: washing, customers · 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 (horse), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 could | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 washing | det |
| 13 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 customers | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 customers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | would | the washing | horse's customers | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent washing=Theme to customer=Destination |
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: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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/29/