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 22
Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night...
Who acts: Badger · What happens: let, go out, find · To what, where: Badger, sobs
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), 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 sobs | compound |
| 2 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
| 4 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sobs | parataxis |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Let | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 out | obl |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Badger | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | infinitive | Badger not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | infinitive | Badger not said here | sobs = sob | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:22.
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 ×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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