The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 10
How sound you always are!» He promises a quiet life at Toad Hall — after a quick mention of a «brilliant idea» about motor-boats that makes the Rat stamp.
Who acts: you, Toad, motor boats · What happens: be, promise, make, mention · To what, where: quiet life, Rat stamp, brilliant idea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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 (you, Toad, motor boats), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 sound | advmod |
| 2 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | _ | 2 sound | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sound | cop |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promises | nsubj |
| 9 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sound | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Toad | case |
| 14 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nmod |
| 15 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Toad | flat |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 mention | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mention | det |
| 19 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mention | amod |
| 20 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 idea | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 idea | det |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 idea | punct |
| 24 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 idea | amod |
| 25 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mention | nmod |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 idea | punct |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 boats | case |
| 28 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boats | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 motor | punct |
| 30 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 idea | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 makes | nsubj |
| 32 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 boats | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stamp | det |
| 34 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 stamp | compound |
| 35 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 makes | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | always, sound property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | Toad | a quiet life | after a quick mention of a brilliant idea about motor boats | at Toad | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | motor boats | the Rat stamp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stamp=Product | ||||
| 4 | mention in a quote | a brilliant idea about motor boats | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/10/