The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 11
Through the door they hear the Chief Weasel making a speech about «our kind host, Mr.
Who acts: glasses, Chief Weasel · What happens: hear, make · To what, where: Chief Weasel, door, speech
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (glasses, Chief Weasel), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Weasel | det |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Weasel | compound |
| 8 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Weasel | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 speech | det |
| 11 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 host | case |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 host | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 host | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 host | amod |
| 16 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speech | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 host | punct |
| 18 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 host | appos |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | glasses = glass | the Chief Weasel | the door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weasel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Chief Weasel not said here | a speech | about our kind host | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product |
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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:11.
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. 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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