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 39
Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?»
Who acts: you, Badger, your · What happens: think, say, be, know, go · To what, where: Badger · 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 (you, Badger, your), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 4 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 think | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Badger | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friend | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | aux |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 here | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 here | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 here | cop |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 said | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 here | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 known | cc |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | aux |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 goings | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 goings | det:predet |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 goings | nmod:poss |
| 33 | goings | going | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 known | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 goings | compound:prt |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | Badger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme father=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | would · perfect | Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | Badger | night | here property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | past · perfect | of your goings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of going=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | your | nom going «act intransitive»: 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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:39.
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): no change. 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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