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 13
After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell all his adventures — with plenty of things that might have happened, if only he'd thought of them in time.
Who acts: Badger, Mole, Toad, things · What happens: take, let, tell, happen, think, adventure · To what, where: forty winks, Toad, adventures · 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, Toad, things), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 lunch | case |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obl |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 winks | nummod |
| 6 | winks | wink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 takes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lets | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lets | cc |
| 9 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lets | nsubj |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 lets | advmod |
| 11 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | conj |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lets | obj |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lets | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 adventures | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tell | obj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 plenty | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 plenty | case |
| 19 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 things | case |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plenty | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 happened | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 happened | aux |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 thought | mark |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 thought | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thought | aux |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 happened | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thought | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Badger | forty winks | after lunch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | present | Mole | Toad | kindly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Toad not said here | Mole's adventures | with plenty of things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient | |||
| 4 | happen | might · perfect | things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Mole | time | of things = thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | adventure | Mole | nom adventure «act 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:13.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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