The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 5
In every invitation he boasts about how he flattened the Chief Weasel, and he adds a programme for the evening: SPEECH BY TOAD, ADDRESS BY TOAD, SONG BY TOAD, OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: boast, flatten, add, speak, address, sing · To what, where: invitation, Chief Weasel, programme · 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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 invitation | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 invitation | det |
| 3 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boasts | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boasts | nsubj |
| 5 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 flattened | mark |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 flattened | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flattened | nsubj |
| 9 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boasts | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Weasel | det |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Weasel | compound |
| 12 | Weasel | weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 flattened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 adds | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 adds | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 adds | nsubj |
| 16 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boasts | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 programme | det |
| 18 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 adds | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 evening | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evening | det |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 programme | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 SPEECH | punct |
| 23 | SPEECH | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 programme | appos |
| 24 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 25 TOAD | case |
| 25 | TOAD | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 SPEECH | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ADDRESS | punct |
| 27 | ADDRESS | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 SPEECH | conj |
| 28 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 29 TOAD | case |
| 29 | TOAD | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ADDRESS | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 SONG | punct |
| 31 | SONG | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 SPEECH | conj |
| 32 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 33 TOAD | case |
| 33 | TOAD | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 SONG | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 COMPOSITIONS | punct |
| 35 | OTHER | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 COMPOSITIONS | amod |
| 36 | COMPOSITIONS | composition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 SPEECH | conj |
| 37 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 38 TOAD | case |
| 38 | TOAD | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 COMPOSITIONS | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boasts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | Toad | every invitation | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | flatten | past | Toad | the Chief Weasel | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weasel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present | Toad | a programme | for the evening | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent programme=Patient | |||
| 4 | speak | TOAD | nom speech «communication transitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 5 | address | TOAD | nom address «communication transitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sing | TOAD | nom song «communication intransitive»: by=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:5.
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, 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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