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 28
«Why strive? why struggle?» (strive = try hard)
Who acts: you · What happens: strive, struggle, try · 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 (you), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 strive | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 strive | advmod |
| 3 | strive | strive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 strive | punct |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 struggle | advmod |
| 6 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strive | parataxis |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 strive | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 strive | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 strive | punct |
| 10 | strive | strive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 strive | parataxis |
| 11 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 12 try | punct |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 strive | conj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 try | advmod |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 strive | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=wh, act=suggest, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | struggle in a quote | infinitive | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | strive | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:28.
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): 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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