The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 11
Toad thinks a long time and then says sadly: «You have conquered, my friends...
Who acts: Toad, You · What happens: think, say, conquer · 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 (Toad, 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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | conj |
| 9 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 says | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 conquered | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 conquered | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 conquered | aux |
| 14 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 says | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 friends | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 conquered | vocative |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Toad | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Toad not said here | then | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | present · perfect | You | my friends vocative | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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