The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 18
Onion-sauce!» at the rabbits as a cheeky jeer; onion sauce was served with roast rabbit, so it was a rude joke.
Who acts: sauce · What happens: serve, be · To what, where: onion sauce, rude joke
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 (sauce), 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 | Onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sauce | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Onion | punct |
| 3 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sauce | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 sauce | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 rabbits | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbits | det |
| 8 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sauce | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 jeer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jeer | det |
| 11 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jeer | amod |
| 12 | jeer | jeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sauce | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 14 | onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sauce | compound |
| 15 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 served | aux:pass |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sauce | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rabbit | case |
| 19 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rabbit | compound |
| 20 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 joke | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 joke | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 joke | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 joke | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 joke | det |
| 26 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 joke | amod |
| 27 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sauce | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sauce | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | past · passive | onion sauce | with roast rabbit | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with rabbit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | sauce | a rude joke | tree rules |
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:18.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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