Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 16

When the Mole politely praises Toad Hall, Toad cries «Finest house on the whole river», and then cannot help adding «Or anywhere else, for that matter».

Who acts: Mole, Toad · What happens: praise, cry, not help, add · To what, where: Toad, Finest house, whole river

This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (Mole, Toad), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 praises	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 praises	nsubj
4	politely	politely	ADV	_	5 praises	advmod
5	praises	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cries	advcl
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 praises	obj
7	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Toad	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cries	punct
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cries	nsubj
10	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
12	Finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cries	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 river	amod
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 help	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
21	then	then	ADV	_	24 help	advmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 help	advmod
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cries	conj
25	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 help	xcomp
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 anywhere	punct
27	Or	or	CCONJ	_	28 anywhere	cc
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 adding	advmod
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 anywhere	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 matter	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 matter	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 help	obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 matter	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	present	the Mole	Toad			politely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present	Toad	Finest house	the whole river			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on river=Destination
3	not help	can	Toad not said here			then	for that matter	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	add speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Toad not said here				anywhere property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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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