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 15
Toad: «You've been listening to some of the yarns they spin in the public-houses about here.
Who acts: You, yarns · What happens: listen, spin · To what, where: Toad, yarns, public houses
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 (You, yarns), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 listening | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 listening | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 listening | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 listening | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 listening | aux |
| 7 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Toad | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 listening | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 yarns | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 yarns | det |
| 12 | yarns | yarn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spin | nsubj |
| 14 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 yarns | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 houses | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 houses | det |
| 17 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 houses | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 public | punct |
| 19 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spin | obl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 here | case |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 houses | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | You | Toad not said here | to some | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spin in a quote | present | yarns = yarn | the yarns not said here | the public houses | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:15.
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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