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 20
Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won't be me that'll be running away, in a very short time from now!»
Who acts: you, men, frame · What happens: not keep, idle, talk, not be, run away · To what, where: men, posts, me
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 (you, men, frame), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 keep | advmod |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | idling | idle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 talking | cc |
| 8 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 idling | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 posts | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 posts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 talking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 14 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 me | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 me | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 me | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 me | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 me | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 me | cop |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Mole | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 running | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 running | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 running | aux |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 me | acl:relcl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 running | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 time | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 short | advmod |
| 31 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 now | case |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 keep | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | imperative · do-support | you not said here | my men | time | Mole obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | idle | gerund | my men not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | my men not said here | men's posts | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a | future | frame | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run away | future · progressive | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:20.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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