The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 1

He makes up a song in praise of himself and sings it at the top of his voice, though nobody is there to hear.

Who acts: Toad, nobody · What happens: make up, sing, be, hear, praise · To what, where: song, praise, top, Toad

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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 (Toad, nobody), 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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 makes	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 praise	case
7	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 praise	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sings	cc
11	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sings	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sings	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 voice	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 voice	nmod:poss
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 is	mark
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 is	nsubj
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 is	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make up	present	Toad	a song	praise of Toad	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme song=Pivot
2	sing speech: express	present	Toad not said here	song	the top of Toad's voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	be	present	nobody		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	praise			Toad		nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:1.

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.

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