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 15
The song begins: «The world has held great Heroes, / As history-books have showed; / But never a name to go down to fame / Compared with that of Toad!»
Who acts: song, world, history books · What happens: begin, hold, show, go down, compare · To what, where: great Heroes, fame · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (song, world, history books), 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 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 begins | ccomp |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Heroes | amod |
| 11 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 held | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 13 | / | / | SYM | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 14 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 showed | mark |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 books | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 history | punct |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 showed | aux |
| 19 | showed | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 held | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 name | punct |
| 21 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 25 name | punct |
| 22 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 name | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 name | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 name | acl |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 fame | case |
| 30 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | / | / | SYM | _ | 3 begins | punct |
| 32 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 fame | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 that | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 Compared | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Toad | case |
| 36 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 that | nmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the song | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hold in a quote | present · perfect | the world | great Heroes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | present · perfect | history books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go down in a quote | to-infinitive | the world not said here | to fame; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | compare in a quote | participle | fame not said here | with fame | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-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: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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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