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 34
The weasel's song begins «Toad he went a-pleasuring / Gaily down the street—» (a-pleasuring = going out for fun); Toad mutters «Only just let me get at him!»
Who acts: song, Toad, weasel · What happens: begin, go, pleasure, go out, mutter, let · To what, where: Toad · 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 (song, Toad, 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 | 2 weasel | det |
| 2 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 weasel | case |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begins | nsubj |
| 5 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | vocative |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begins | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pleasuring | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | pleasuring | pleasure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 » | amod |
| 13 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gaily | punct |
| 14 | Gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pleasuring | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Gaily | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gaily | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleasuring | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pleasuring | det |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 a | punct |
| 23 | pleasuring | pleasure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 » | acl:relcl |
| 24 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 pleasuring | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 going | compound:prt |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 fun | case |
| 28 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 going | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleasuring | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 mutters | punct |
| 31 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 mutters | nsubj |
| 32 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 begins | parataxis |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 let | punct |
| 34 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 36 let | advmod |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 let | advmod |
| 36 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 mutters | ccomp |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 let | obj |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 let | xcomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 let | punct |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the weasel's song | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | song | Toad vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pleasure in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pleasure | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go out | gerund | for fun | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mutter speech: express | present | Toad | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | get in a quote | infinitive | Toad not said here | at Toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | sing | the weasel | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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:34.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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