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 32
Yes, I've been a conceited old ass... but now I'm going to be a good Toad» (sound = wise, sensible).
Who acts: I · What happens: be, go · To what, where: conceited old ass, Toad »
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 (I), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 ass | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ass | nsubj |
| 4 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ass | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 ass | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ass | det |
| 7 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ass | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ass | amod |
| 9 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 going | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ass | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 » | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 » | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Toad | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Toad | amod |
| 20 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 » | compound |
| 21 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | xcomp |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 sound | punct |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 » | conj |
| 24 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 27 sensible | punct |
| 25 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sensible | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wise | punct |
| 27 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 » | parataxis |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 sensible | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ass | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | I | a conceited old ass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | Toad » and sound | 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:32.
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 ×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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