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 18

The father's words: «He's a good boy, but very light and volatile in character, and simply cannot hold his tongue.

Who acts: father, good boy · What happens: be, not hold, word · To what, where: good boy, character, tongue

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 (father, good boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
7	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boy	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 light	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 light	cc
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 light	advmod
15	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 volatile	cc
17	volatile	volatile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 light	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 character	case
19	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 light	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hold	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hold	cc
22	simply	simply	ADV	_	25 hold	advmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hold	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 hold	advmod
25	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 boy	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tongue	nmod:poss
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 words	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	father	a good boy			tree rules
2	be in a quote		father not said here		character		tree rules
3	not hold in a quote	can	a good boy not said here	father's tongue		simply property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
4	word		the father				nom word «communication transitive»: 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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:18.

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 ×1. 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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