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 34

Toad told Mole his adventures and «rather let himself go»: much of it was «what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards».

Who acts: Toad, Mole · What happens: tell, let, go, happen, have, think · To what, where: adventures, Mole · 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 (Toad, Mole), 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	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 adventures	nmod:poss
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 much	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux:pass
18	«	«	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happened	aux
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 might	punct
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 happened	aux
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
25	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	advcl
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 much	conj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 only	punct
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 thought	advmod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 only	punct
33	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 much	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 time	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	41 time	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 of	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 time	nsubj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 time	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 time	case
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 in	punct
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thought	obl:unmarked
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 time	punct
43	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	49 minutes	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 instead	punct
45	of	of	ADP	_	43 instead	fixed
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 instead	punct
47	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 minutes	nummod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 ten	punct
49	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 thought	obl
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 minutes	punct
51	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	49 minutes	advmod
52	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Toad	Mole's adventures	Mole		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive	Toad not said here	Mole			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	Mole not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	happen in a quote	might · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have in a quote	past · passive	Toad not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»
6	think speech: other in a quote	participle	Toad			minute; time	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	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:34.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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