The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 12
The Mole was spring-cleaning with brooms, dusters and a pail of whitewash (a white paint for walls) till he had «dust in his throat and eyes» and an aching back.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: clean, have · To what, where: dust, throat
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 (Mole), 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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cleaning | aux |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaning | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaning | punct |
| 6 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 brooms | case |
| 8 | brooms | broom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cleaning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dusters | punct |
| 10 | dusters | duster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brooms | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pail | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pail | det |
| 13 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brooms | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 whitewash | case |
| 15 | whitewash | whitewash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pail | nmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 paint | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 paint | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paint | amod |
| 19 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pail | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 walls | case |
| 21 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 paint | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 paint | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cleaning | advcl |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 dust | punct |
| 27 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 throat | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 throat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dust | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 eyes | cc |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 throat | conj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 dust | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 back | cc |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 back | det |
| 36 | aching | ache | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 back | amod |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dust | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaning | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | past · progressive | the Mole | with brooms and dusters and a pail of whitewash | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with broom=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Mole | dust and a aching back | Mole's throat and eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:12.
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. 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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