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 3

No speech, no song, however much the young animals bang the table — just polite talk and questions about their families.

Who acts: young animals · What happens: bang · To what, where: table

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 (young animals), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 speech	det
2	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 song	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speech	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bang	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	12 bang	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bang	nsubj
12	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 speech	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bang	obj
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 talk	advmod
17	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talk	amod
18	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speech	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 questions	cc
20	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 talk	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 families	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 families	nmod:poss
23	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 questions	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 speech	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bang	present	the young animals	the table					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location table=Theme

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:3.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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