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 25

Some of the younger and livelier animals whispered to each other that things were not so amusing as they used to be in the good old days.

Who acts: things · What happens: whisper, not be, use, be · To what, where: younger animals, each

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 (things), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animals	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 animals	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 animals	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 animals	cc
6	livelier	lively	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 younger	conj
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 animals	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 whispered	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 amusing	mark
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 amusing	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 amusing	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 amusing	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 amusing	advmod
17	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whispered	ccomp
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 used	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 used	nsubj
20	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 amusing	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	27 days	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 days	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 days	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 days	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 used	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	participle		some younger animals not said here	each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
2	not is	past	things				amusing property	tree rules
3	use	past	things = thing					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here			in the good old days		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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:25.

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, 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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