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 37
In the water he promises: «if ever I steal a motor-car again!
Who acts: song · What happens: promise, steal · To what, where: water, 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 (song), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 water | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promises | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 promises | nsubj |
| 5 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 promises | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 promises | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 steal | mark |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 steal | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 steal | nsubj |
| 11 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 promises | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 13 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 car | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 motor | punct |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steal | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 steal | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 promises | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=promise
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | song | the water | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | steal a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | song | a motor car | ever; again | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme |
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:37.
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): no change. 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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