The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 11
But Badger says Mole has «more sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.
Who acts: Badger, Mole, other animals · What happens: say, have · To what, where: more sense, little finger, whole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (Badger, Mole, other animals), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 says | cc |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sense | amod |
| 8 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 finger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 finger | amod |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sense | nmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 animals | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 finger | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 whole | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 whole | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bodies | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bodies | amod |
| 24 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 whole | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Mole | more sense | your little finger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | some other animals | the whole of animals's fat bodies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:11.
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): 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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