The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 25
Looking down on a country way of talking is an old snobbish idea; every dialect is fine.
Who acts: Looking, dialect · What happens: look down, be · To what, where: old snobbish idea
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 (Looking, dialect), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 idea | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | compound |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 talking | mark |
| 8 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 idea | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 idea | amod |
| 12 | snobbish | snobbish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 idea | amod |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fine | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 dialect | det |
| 16 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fine | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fine | cop |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 idea | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | gerund | on a country way talking | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on way=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Looking | a old snobbish idea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | every dialect | fine property | tree rules |
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:25.
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 ×3. 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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