The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 14
He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go!
Who acts: Mole, we · What happens: dig up, scrape, scratch, scrabble, scrooge, mutter · To what, where: tunnel, Mole · 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 (Mole, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dug | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tunnel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dug | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 scraped | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 scraped | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scraped | nsubj |
| 9 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dug | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scratched | cc |
| 11 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scraped | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scrabbled | cc |
| 13 | scrabbled | scrabble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scraped | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scrooged | cc |
| 15 | scrooged | scrooge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scraped | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 scraped | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 muttering | punct |
| 18 | muttering | mutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 scraped | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 muttering | obl |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 muttering | punct |
| 22 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 muttering | parataxis |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | Mole | Mole's tunnel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scrape in a quote | past | Mole | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | scratch in a quote | past | Mole not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scrabble in a quote | past | Mole not said here | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | scrooge in a quote | past | Mole not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mutter speech: express | gerund | Mole not said here | Mole | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | present | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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