The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 40

Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?» The Rat had read the invitations: «simply disgraceful», and «confiscated the lot» (took them all away).

Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: have, mock, jeer, read, confiscate, take away · To what, where: fellow, common laughing stock, invitations, lot · 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 (you, Rat), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stock	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stock	amod
7	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stock	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 laughing	punct
9	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mocked	punct
11	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stock	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 jeered	cc
13	jeered	jeer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mocked	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	13 jeered	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 stoats	case
16	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 jeered	obl:agent
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weasels	cc
18	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stoats	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 mocked	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Rat	det
22	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 read	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 read	aux
24	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 invitations	det
26	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 read	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 disgraceful	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 disgraceful	punct
29	simply	simply	ADV	_	30 disgraceful	advmod
30	disgraceful	disgraceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 invitations	appos
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 disgraceful	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 confiscated	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 confiscated	cc
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 confiscated	punct
35	confiscated	confiscate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 disgraceful	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lot	det
37	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 confiscated	obj
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 confiscated	punct
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 confiscated	parataxis
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 took	obj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 them	nmod:unmarked
43	away	away	ADV	_	40 took	advmod
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	you	fellow		tree rules
2	mock	participle		a common laughing stock not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	jeer	participle				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read in a quote	past · perfect	the Rat	the invitations		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Topic
5	confiscate	past	the Rat not said here	the lot		tree rules
6	take away in a quote	past		invitations = invitation	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:40.

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, 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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