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 3
Toad sulks for a moment, then admits he is «a bit of a talker».
Who acts: Toad · What happens: sulk, admit, be · To what, where: bit · 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 (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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sulks | nsubj |
| 2 | sulks | sulk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sulks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 admits | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 admits | advmod |
| 8 | admits | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sulks | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bit | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bit | cop |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admits | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 talker | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 talker | det |
| 16 | talker | talker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bit | nmod |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sulks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | present | Toad | moment | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | present | Toad not said here | then | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Toad | a bit | of a talker | 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:3.
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, R6-punct-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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