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 22

I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.» (a salon = a gathering of clever people for conversation)

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, have, be · To what, where: I, salon, whatever · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ought	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ought	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 salon	det
10	salon	salon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whatever	punct
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 told	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 be	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 whatever	cop
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 salon	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 salon	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 salon	det
20	salon	salon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
21	=	=	SYM	_	23 gathering	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gathering	det
23	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 salon	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gathering	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 conversation	case
28	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	nmod
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 gathering	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	a salon	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salon=Patient
3	is a	infinitive		whatever	tree rules

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:22.

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 ×3, 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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