The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 13

Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what his father, Badger's old friend, would have said.

Who acts: Badger, father · What happens: finish, stand, ask, say · To what, where: cheese, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (Badger, father), 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	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finishes	nsubj
2	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cheese	nmod:poss
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finishes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stands	punct
6	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 finishes	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stands	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asks	cc
11	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stands	conj
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asks	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 said	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
17	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 friend	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Badger	case
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 friend	amod
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 said	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	aux
24	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asks	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finishes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	present	Badger	Badger's cheese			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cheese=Eventuality
2	stand	present	Badger not said here			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	ask speech: ask	present	Badger not said here		Toad		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	would · perfect	Badger's father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:13.

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. 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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