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 2
The book calls it «perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed».
Who acts: book, animal · What happens: call, compose · To what, where: song, conceited song · 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 (book, animal), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 calls | obj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 song | punct |
| 6 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 song | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 conceited | advmod |
| 9 | conceited | conceit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 song | amod |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 composed | obj |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 animal | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 composed | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 composed | advmod |
| 15 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 song | acl:relcl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 song | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | the book | song | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | compose in a quote | past | any animal | the conceited song | ever | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Result |
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:2.
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, 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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