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 22
The Rat: «You know I shouldn't like you to blame me afterwards and say I had forgotten anything!»
Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, not like, blame, say, forget · To what, where: you, me, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rat | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rat | parataxis |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 like | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 like | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 blame | mark |
| 13 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blame | obj |
| 15 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 blame | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blame | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 say | ccomp |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 forgotten | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not like in a quote | should | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blame not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | afterwards property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: express in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | forget in a quote | past · perfect | I | anything | 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:22.
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 ×2, 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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