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 2

I like your spirit.» Toad starts slowly and carefully, and the gentlemen clap: fancy a washerwoman driving so well!

Who acts: I, Toad, gentlemen, washerwoman · What happens: like, start, clap, fancy, driving · To what, where: spirit, washerwoman · 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, Toad, gentlemen, washerwoman), 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	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spirit	nmod:poss
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 like	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
7	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starts	nsubj
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 like	parataxis
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 starts	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carefully	cc
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 slowly	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clap	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clap	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gentlemen	det
15	gentlemen	gentlemen	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clap	nsubj
16	clap	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 starts	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 fancy	punct
18	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 clap	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 washerwoman	det
20	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fancy	obj
21	driving	driving	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 washerwoman	acl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 driving	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct

Pragmatics

form: exclamation
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	I	your spirit		tree rules
2	start in a quote	present	Toad		slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	clap in a quote	present	the gentlemen			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fancy in a quote	infinitive		a washerwoman		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washerwoman=Stimulus
5	driving in a quote	gerund	a washerwoman not said here		well property	tree rules

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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