The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 21

Toad tries «Me stop indoors and write a lot of rotten letters on a jolly morning like this...» then turns: «I sacrifice this fair morning on the altar of duty and friendship!»

Who acts: Toad, Badger · What happens: try, stop, write, turn, sacrifice · To what, where: lot, altar · 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, Badger), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tries	nsubj
2	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
4	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tries	ccomp
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 write	cc
8	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 write	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 letters	case
12	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 letters	amod
13	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lot	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 morning	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 morning	det
16	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 write	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 this	case
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 morning	nmod
20	...	...	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 turns	advmod
23	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tries	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 sacrifice	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 sacrifice	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sacrifice	nsubj
27	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 turns	ccomp
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 morning	det
29	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sacrifice	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 altar	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 altar	det
33	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sacrifice	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 duty	case
35	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 altar	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 friendship	cc
37	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 duty	conj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 sacrifice	punct
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	Toad					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop in a quote	infinitive	Badger				indoors property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	write in a quote	infinitive	Badger not said here	a lot of rotten letters		morning		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	turn	present	Toad not said here			then		tree rules
5	sacrifice in a quote	present	Badger		the altar of duty and friendship	morning		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:21.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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