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 33
This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone.
Who acts: This, sarcasm, you · What happens: be, say, mean, mock · To what, where: sarcasm, opposite, someone · 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 (This, sarcasm, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sarcasm | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sarcasm | cop |
| 3 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sarcasm | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 opposite | det |
| 7 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 opposite | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mock | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mock | mark |
| 14 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saying | advcl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 mock | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sarcasm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | sarcasm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | sarcasm not said here | the opposite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mock | to-infinitive | sarcasm not said here | someone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
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:33.
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): R7-rel-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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