The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 24
Toad's song!», Toad shook his head, raised one paw in mild protest, and offered them delicacies (special tasty food) and polite small-talk.
Who acts: song, Toad · What happens: shake, raise, offer, sing · To what, where: head, one paw, mild protest, delicacies, speech
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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, 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 song | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Toad | case |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | nsubj |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raised | punct |
| 12 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 paw | nummod |
| 14 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raised | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 protest | case |
| 16 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 protest | amod |
| 17 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raised | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 offered | cc |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | iobj |
| 22 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 offered | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 food | punct |
| 24 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 food | amod |
| 25 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 food | amod |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 delicacies | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 food | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 talk | cc |
| 29 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 talk | amod |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 talk | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 small | punct |
| 32 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 delicacies | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake in a quote | past | Toad's song | Toad's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | raise in a quote | past | Toad's song not said here | one paw | mild protest | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in protest=Destination | |||
| 3 | offer in a quote | past | Toad's song not said here | delicacies and polite small talk | speech | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal delicacy=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing | Toad | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:24.
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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