The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 1

Badger tells him there must be a Banquet to celebrate, and Toad must spend the morning writing the invitations.

Who acts: Badger, Banquet, Toad · What happens: tell, be, celebrate, spend, write · To what, where: Toad, invitations · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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, Banquet, Toad), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Banquet	det
8	Banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 be	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 celebrate	mark
10	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Banquet	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spend	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spend	cc
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spend	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 spend	aux
15	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spend	obj
18	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 spend	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 invitations	det
20	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 writing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Badger		Toad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	must	a Banquet			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	celebrate	to-infinitive	a Banquet not said here					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spend	must	Toad				morning	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	write	gerund	Toad not said here	the invitations				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:1.

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 ×4. 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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