The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 11
The book is «The Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908; the animals talk, wear clothes and live in little houses, but still live like animals in many ways.
Who acts: book, animals · What happens: be, publish, talk, wear, live · To what, where: Wind, Willows, 1908, clothes, little houses, many ways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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 (book, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Wind | cop |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wind | det |
| 6 | Wind | wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Willows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Willows | det |
| 9 | Willows | willow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Wind | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Grahame | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Grahame | case |
| 12 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Grahame | compound |
| 13 | Grahame | Grahame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wind | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 published | punct |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 published | advmod |
| 16 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Willows | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1908 | case |
| 18 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 published | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 talk | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animals | det |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 talk | nsubj |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Wind | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wear | punct |
| 24 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | conj |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 wear | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 live | cc |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 houses | case |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 houses | amod |
| 30 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 live | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 live | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 live | cc |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 live | advmod |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | conj |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 animals | case |
| 36 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 live | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 ways | case |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ways | amod |
| 39 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 live | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the book | the Wind | the Willows | by Kenneth Grahame | tree rules | ||
| 2 | publish | participle | the Willows not said here | 1908 | first property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | talk | present | the animals | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wear | present | the animals not said here | clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 5 | live | present | the animals not said here | little houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 6 | live | present | the animals not said here | many ways | still | like animals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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