The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 0
Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends.
Who acts: Toad, friends · What happens: sit, ask, try, drive, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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, friends), 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 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asks | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 driver | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 driver | det |
| 4 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | nsubj |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 7 asks | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 try | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 try | nsubj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 she | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 try | aux |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asks | ccomp |
| 15 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 try | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 tell | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | Toad not said here | by the driver | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by driver=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Toad | sweetly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try a condition, not said to happen | may | Toad | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | drive not said to happen | gerund | Toad not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Toad's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:0.
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): 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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