The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 24

Badger: «I want some grub, I do» — the book calls this «that rather common way he had of speaking».

Who acts: book · What happens: want, call, have, speak · To what, where: grub, this, common way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (book), 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	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 —	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Badger	parataxis
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 grub	det
7	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
12	—	—	PUNCT	_	1 Badger	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 calls	nsubj
15	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Badger	parataxis
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 calls	obj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 common	advmod
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 calls	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 speaking	mark
25	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 had	advcl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Badger	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the book = book	some grub		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grub=Theme
2	call speech: assert	present	the book	this	that common way obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
3	have in a quote	past	book	that common way not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	book not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:24.

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 ×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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