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 4
When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wouldn't be her running away soon.
Who acts: Sergeant, Mole · What happens: tell, run away, say, not be · To what, where: good woman · 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 (Sergeant, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sergeant | det |
| 3 | Sergeant | sergeant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 14 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 running | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 running | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 running | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 running | cop |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 running | nmod:poss |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 running | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 running | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Sergeant | the good woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sergeant not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is | would | Sergeant | away, run, soon property | tree rules |
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:4.
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, 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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