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 30

He loved the horse too much, he said; the man answered «Try and love a donkey.

Who acts: horse, man · What happens: love, say, answer, try · To what, where: horse, donkey · 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, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	2 loved	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 Try	punct
15	Try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 love	cc
17	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Try	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 donkey	det
19	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 love	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	love	past	horse	the horse	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	past	the man		tree rules
4	try in a quote	infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	love in a quote	infinitive		a donkey	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donkey=Stimulus

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:30.

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, 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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