The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 15
But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be a laughing-stock for the weasels.
Who acts: Badger, Toad · What happens: explain, have, live, respect, not be · To what, where: laughing stock · 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 explains | cc |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 5 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 explains | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 has | xcomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 live | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 respected | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 respected | aux:pass |
| 12 | respected | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 live | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stock | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stock | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stock | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stock | det |
| 17 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stock | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
| 19 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 weasels | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weasels | det |
| 22 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stock | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Badger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | respect | infinitive · passive | Toad not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 5 | not is a | infinitive | a laughing stock | for the weasels | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:15.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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