The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 13

Secrets attracted Toad «because he never could keep one», and he enjoyed the thrill of telling one after promising not to.

Who acts: Secrets, Toad, thrill · What happens: attract, not keep, enjoy, tell, not promise · To what, where: Toad, one, thrill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (Secrets, Toad, thrill), 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	Secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attracted	nsubj
2	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 attracted	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 keep	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 attracted	advcl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 keep	obj
11	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enjoyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 enjoyed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 enjoyed	nsubj
15	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 attracted	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thrill	det
17	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enjoyed	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 telling	mark
19	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 thrill	acl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 telling	obj
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 promising	mark
22	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 telling	advcl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 promising	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	23 not	fixed
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	attract	past	Secrets	Toad	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient
2	not keep in a quote	could	Toad	one	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Theme »=Attribute
3	enjoy	past	Toad	the thrill	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrill=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the thrill not said here	one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
5	not promise speech: promise	gerund	the thrill not said here		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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