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 29
«Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found and paid the value of her horse; Toad «kicked terribly at this» and still called her rude names — the old Toad had not quite gone.
Who acts: Toad, rude names, old Toad, woman · What happens: find, pay, kick, call, not go, value · To what, where: barge woman, severe compulsion, value, horse · 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, rude names, old Toad, woman), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 2 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 compulsion | case |
| 3 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 compulsion | amod |
| 4 | compulsion | compulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Badger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badger | det |
| 7 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compulsion | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 compulsion | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 10 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 barge | punct |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 paid | cc |
| 16 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 value | det |
| 18 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paid | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 value | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 kicked | punct |
| 23 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kicked | nsubj |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 kicked | punct |
| 25 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 26 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 25 kicked | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 this | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 kicked | obl |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 kicked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 called | cc |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 called | advmod |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kicked | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 names | nmod:poss |
| 34 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 names | amod |
| 35 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 called | obj |
| 36 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Toad | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Toad | amod |
| 39 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 gone | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 gone | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 gone | advmod |
| 42 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 43 gone | advmod |
| 43 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 found | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | 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 | find | past · passive | the barge woman | severe compulsion from the Badger | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | past | the value of woman's horse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Asset | |||||
| 3 | kick in a quote | past | Toad | at this; terribly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at this=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | past | woman's rude names | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not go | past · perfect | the old Toad | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | value | woman's horse | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | name | woman | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:29.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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