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 2
Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» they said.
Who acts: washing, We, sentries · What happens: want, do, not do, say · To what, where: washing, duty · 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 (washing, We, sentries), 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 | Want | want | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 washing | det |
| 3 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Want | obj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Want | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Want | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | parataxis |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 washing | det |
| 16 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 duty | case |
| 18 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | infinitive | any washing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | participle | any washing not said here | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not do | present · do-support | We | any washing | duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | sentries = sentry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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:2.
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, 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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