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 28

Toad sent the gaoler's daughter «a handsome gold chain and locket set with pearls» with a letter «that even the Badger admitted to be modest, grateful, and appreciative»; the engine-driver «was properly thanked and compensated» (paid back).

Who acts: Toad, Badger · What happens: send, admit, be, thank, compensate, pay back · To what, where: handsome gold chain, daughter, letter, engine driver · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Toad, Badger), 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	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gaoler	det
4	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 gaoler	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	iobj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 chain	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chain	det
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chain	amod
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chain	compound
11	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
13	locket	locket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	compound
14	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chain	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 pearls	case
16	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 chain	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 letter	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 letter	det
20	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 admitted	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 admitted	obj
23	even	even	ADV	_	25 Badger	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Badger	det
25	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 admitted	nsubj
26	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 letter	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 modest	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 modest	cop
29	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 admitted	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grateful	punct
31	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 modest	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 appreciative	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 appreciative	cc
34	appreciative	appreciative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 modest	conj
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 admitted	punct
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 thanked	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 driver	det
38	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 driver	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 engine	punct
40	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 thanked	nsubj:pass
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	44 thanked	punct
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 thanked	aux:pass
43	properly	properly	ADV	_	44 thanked	advmod
44	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sent	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 compensated	cc
46	compensated	compensate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 thanked	conj
47	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 thanked	punct
48	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 paid	punct
49	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 thanked	parataxis
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 paid	advmod
51	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 paid	punct
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Toad	a handsome gold chain and locket set with pearls	the gaoler's daughter	with a letter	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination chain=Theme
2	admit speech: other in a quote	past	the Badger	a letter			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the Badger not said here			modest property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		the Badger not said here				tree rules
5	be in a quote		the Badger not said here				tree rules
6	thank speech: thank in a quote	past · passive		the engine driver		properly property	tree rules
7	compensate in a quote	participle					vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme
8	pay back	participle					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:28.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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