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 4

Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps even drive up to Toad Hall in a car — «one in the eye for Badger!»

Who acts: Toad · What happens: be, tell, get, drive up · To what, where: story, prison, lift, Toad Hall, car · 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 (Toad), 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	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thrilled	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrilled	cop
3	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 thrilled	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thrilled	parataxis
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lift	det
14	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drive	cc
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 drive	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Hall	case
22	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Hall	compound
23	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 car	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 car	det
26	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 «	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thrilled	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 eye	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eye	det
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	nmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 Badger	case
34	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 eye	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 thrilled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad				thrilled property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	Toad	a story	prison			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
3	get	infinitive	Toad not said here	a lift				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lift=Stimulus
4	drive up	infinitive	Toad not said here		Toad Hall	a car	perhaps property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hall=Trajectory

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:4.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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