The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 34
«Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» he pleaded piteously.
Who acts: SONG · What happens: not sing, plead · To what, where: SPEECH · 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 (SONG), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sing | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pleaded | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | obj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 song | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 song | nummod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 song | amod |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleaded | nsubj |
| 14 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 14 pleaded | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=request, indirect=1, polarity=none, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express in a quote | may | SONG | SPEECH | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | SONG | piteously 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:34.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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