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 16
Toad boasts: «Been in prison—got out of it, of course!
Who acts: Toad · What happens: boast, be, get out · To what, where: prison · 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 (Toad), 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 boasts | nsubj |
| 2 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 « | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 boasts | punct |
| 5 | Been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 boasts | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 « | obl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Been | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 of | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 got | obl |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 of | fixed |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 boasts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | Toad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | past | prison | 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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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): 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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