The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 9
Several big houses on the Thames are said to have inspired Toad Hall, but nobody knows for sure which one Grahame had in mind.
Who acts: nobody, Grahame · What happens: say, inspire, know, have · To what, where: Several big houses, Toad Hall, one, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» of the geography 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 (nobody, Grahame), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 houses | amod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 houses | amod |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Thames | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Thames | det |
| 6 | Thames | Thames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 houses | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 inspired | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inspired | aux |
| 11 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | xcomp |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hall | compound |
| 13 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inspired | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 knows | cc |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sure | case |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knows | obl |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 22 | Grahame | Grahame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mind | case |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Several big houses on the Thames | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | inspire | to-infinitive · perfect | Toad Hall | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hall=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | present | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Grahame | which one | mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): R5-strong ×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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