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 9
Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children.
Who acts: terrible grey Badger · What happens: be
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 (terrible grey 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 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mole | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Badger | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badger | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Badger | amod |
| 6 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Badger | compound |
| 7 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mole | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fond | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fond | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fond | cop |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 fond | advmod |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 fond | advmod |
| 13 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Badger | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fond | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the terrible grey Badger | of children; fond property | 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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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