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 28
Badger: «Mole, I perceive you have more sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.
Who acts: stoats, you, other animals · What happens: perceive, have · To what, where: Badger, more sense, little finger · 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 (stoats, you, 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 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perceive | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 « | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 perceive | punct |
| 4 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perceive | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 perceive | nsubj |
| 7 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perceive | ccomp |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 sense | amod |
| 11 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 finger | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 finger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 finger | amod |
| 15 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sense | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 animals | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 animals | amod |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 finger | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 whole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whole | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 have | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bodies | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bodies | amod |
| 27 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 whole | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive in a quote | present | the stoats = stoat | Badger | Mole vocative | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | 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 | whole property | 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:28.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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