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 26

The Rat's sharpest point: «why choose to be a convict?» and «Do you suppose it's any pleasure to me... to hear animals saying... that I'm the chap that keeps company with gaol-birds?» (a gaol-bird = someone often in prison; gaol = jail)

Who acts: you, fun, animals, chap, Rat · What happens: choose, be, suppose, hear, say, keep · To what, where: convict, pleasure, animals, chap, company · 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, fun, animals, chap), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 point	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rat	case
4	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 point	amod
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 choose	advmod
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 point	appos
10	to	to	PART	_	13 convict	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 convict	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 convict	det
13	convict	convict	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choose	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 choose	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 suppose	cc
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
18	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 suppose	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 suppose	nsubj
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 choose	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleasure	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pleasure	cop
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 pleasure	det
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suppose	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pleasure	nmod
27	...	...	PUNCT	_	29 hear	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hear	mark
29	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 suppose	parataxis
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saying	nsubj
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hear	xcomp
32	...	...	PUNCT	_	37 chap	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 chap	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 chap	nsubj
35	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 chap	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chap	det
37	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	ccomp
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 keeps	nsubj
39	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 chap	acl:relcl
40	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keeps	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 birds	case
42	gaol	gaol	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 birds	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 gaol	punct
44	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 keeps	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
47	(	(	PUNCT	_	51 bird	punct
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 bird	det
49	gaol	gaol	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 bird	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 gaol	punct
51	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suppose	parataxis
52	=	=	SYM	_	53 someone	punct
53	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	51 bird	conj
54	often	often	ADV	_	56 prison	advmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 prison	case
56	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 someone	nmod
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 gaol	punct
58	gaol	gaol	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 prison	conj
59	=	=	SYM	_	60 jail	punct
60	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 prison	nmod
61	)	)	PUNCT	_	51 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	infinitive					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a convict			tree rules
3	suppose in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	fun	any pleasure	animals = animal		tree rules
5	hear in a quote	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	say speech: ask in a quote	gerund	animals				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	animals = animal	the chap			tree rules
8	keep in a quote	present	the chap	company		with gaol birds	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
9	point		the Rat				nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:26.

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 ×2. 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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