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 8
Inside, Toad is still muttering «But it was fun, though!
Who acts: Toad, company · What happens: mutter, be · 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, company), 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 | Inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 muttering | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inside | punct |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 muttering | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 muttering | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 muttering | advmod |
| 6 | muttering | mutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 fun | punct |
| 8 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fun | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fun | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fun | cop |
| 11 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 muttering | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 though | punct |
| 13 | though | though | ADV | _ | 6 muttering | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 muttering | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: express | present · progressive | Toad | still | inside, though property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | company | fun property | 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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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