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 44

Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his own son, because Toad «simply cannot hold his tongue» (cannot keep a secret).

Who acts: I, father, Toad · What happens: go, tell, not dream, not hold, not keep · To what, where: great secret, you, Toad, own son, tongue, secret · 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 (I, father, Toad), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 going	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 secret	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 secret	amod
10	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 secret	appos
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 told	obj
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 father	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Toad	case
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dreamt	cc
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 dreamt	punct
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dreamt	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dreamt	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 dreamt	aux
25	dreamt	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 told	conj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 telling	mark
27	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 dreamt	advcl
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 son	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 son	amod
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 telling	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Toad	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 hold	mark
34	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 hold	nsubj
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 hold	punct
36	simply	simply	ADV	_	39 hold	advmod
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hold	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 hold	advmod
39	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dreamt	advcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tongue	nmod:poss
41	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hold	obj
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 hold	punct
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	46 keep	punct
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 keep	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 keep	advmod
46	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hold	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 secret	det
48	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 keep	obj
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	46 keep	punct
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	a great secret	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient secret=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Toad's father		Toad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
4	not dream	would · perfect	Toad's father not said here					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	Toad's father not said here		father's own son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
6	not hold	can	Toad	father's tongue			simply property	tree rules
7	not keep in a quote	can		a secret				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:44.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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