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 4

Over lunch Toad tells all his adventures as if they were splendid fun, and the Rat grows more and more grave and silent.

Who acts: Toad, adventures, Rat · What happens: tell, be, grow, adventure · To what, where: adventures, lunch, splendid fun · 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, adventures, Rat), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 lunch	case
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obl
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 adventures	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 adventures	nmod:poss
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tells	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 fun	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 as	fixed
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fun	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fun	cop
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fun	amod
13	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grows	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grows	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grows	nsubj
18	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	conj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 grave	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 more	cc
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 more	conj
22	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grows	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 silent	cc
24	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grave	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Toad	Toad's adventures	lunch		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
2	is a	past	adventures = adventure	splendid fun			tree rules
3	grow	present	the Rat			grave property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	adventure		Toad				nom adventure «act 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:4.

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): R8-pos-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.

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