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 16
Toad asks: «I wish you would kindly let me try and drive the car for a little...
Who acts: Toad, you · What happens: ask, wish, let, try, drive · To what, where: Toad, car · 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, 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drive | cc |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 try | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 car | det |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 little | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drive | obl |
| 20 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Toad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Toad | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | would | you | Toad | kindly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | try in a quote | infinitive | Toad not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | drive in a quote | infinitive | Toad not said here | the car | for a little | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:16.
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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