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 31
The Chief Weasel's speech: «I should like to say one word about our kind host, Mr.
Who acts: Badger, Chief Weasel · What happens: like, say, speak · To what, where: one word · 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 (Badger, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Weasel | det |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Weasel | compound |
| 3 | Weasel | weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speech | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Weasel | case |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 speech | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 speech | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 word | nummod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 host | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 host | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 host | amod |
| 18 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Mr. | punct |
| 20 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 host | appos |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | Badger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | one word | about our kind host | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | speak | the Chief Weasel | nom speech «communication 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:31.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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