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 28
The others promised to be «answerable for his good conduct» (to promise he would behave), and the Rat walked last, «with a firm grip on the shoulder of Toad».
Who acts: others, Badger, Rat · What happens: promise, be, behave, walk, conduct · 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 (others, Badger, Rat), 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 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 answerable | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answerable | cop |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 answerable | punct |
| 7 | answerable | answerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 conduct | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conduct | amod |
| 11 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answerable | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 conduct | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 promise | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 promise | mark |
| 15 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 behave | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 behave | aux |
| 18 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promise | ccomp |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 promise | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walked | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Rat | det |
| 23 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 walked | nsubj |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 25 | last | last | ADV | _ | 24 walked | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grip | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 grip | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 grip | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 grip | det |
| 30 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grip | amod |
| 31 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walked | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 shoulder | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shoulder | det |
| 34 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grip | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Toad | case |
| 36 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 shoulder | nmod |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 grip | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | 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 | promise speech: promise | past | the others | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the others not said here | for Badger's good conduct; answerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | behave | would | Badger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | walk | past | the Rat | with a firm grip on the shoulder of Toad; last property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | conduct in a quote | Badger | nom conduct «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.
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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, R6-punct-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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