The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 37

Toad: «It was, to be sure, but a small thing that I asked—merely leave to blossom and expand for yet one more evening...

Who acts: heart, I · What happens: be, ask, leave, blossom, expand · To what, where: small thing · 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 (heart, I), 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	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	mark
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 sure	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Toad	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 thing	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sure	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 asked	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	acl:relcl
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 leave	punct
19	merely	merely	ADV	_	20 leave	advmod
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 blossom	mark
22	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 leave	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 expand	cc
24	expand	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 blossom	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 evening	case
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 one	advmod
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 evening	nummod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 evening	amod
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 expand	obl
30	...	...	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	heart			sure property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	I	a small thing			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic
3	leave in a quote	infinitive				merely property	tree rules
4	blossom in a quote	to-infinitive					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	expand in a quote	infinitive			evening		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:37.

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): no change. 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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