The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 12

Toad apologises fully and promises to do nothing without the Rat's advice; the Rat says they must wait for Mole and Badger.

Who acts: Toad, Rat, stoats · What happens: apologise, promise, do, say, wait · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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, Rat, stoats), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 apologises	nsubj
2	apologises	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	2 apologises	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 promises	cc
5	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 apologises	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promises	xcomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 do	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	13 advice	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 advice	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rat	case
13	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 apologises	parataxis
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wait	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wait	aux
20	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 says	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 Mole	case
22	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wait	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Badger	cc
24	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mole	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 apologises	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	Toad		fully property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	Toad not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toad not said here	nothing	without the Rat's advice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present	the Rat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait	must	stoats = stoat		for Mole and Badger	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:12.

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 ×1, 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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