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 17
I should like to be able to tell my friends that once I had driven a motor-car!»
Who acts: I · What happens: like, be, tell, drive · To what, where: friends, motor 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 able | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 like | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tell | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 driven | mark |
| 12 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 15 driven | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 driven | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 driven | aux |
| 15 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 car | det |
| 17 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 car | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 motor | punct |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | my friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | drive | past · perfect | I | a motor car | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent car=Location |
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:17.
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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