The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 2
He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixpence to let him pass, and runs on through the fields while everyone else is busy.
Who acts: Mole, fussy old rabbit, sixpence, everyone · What happens: be, knock over, want, let, pass, run · To what, where: fussy old rabbit, sixpence, Mole, fields
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, fussy old rabbit, sixpence, everyone), 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 | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 knocks | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knocks | nsubj |
| 7 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 knocks | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rabbit | det |
| 10 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rabbit | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rabbit | amod |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knocks | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wants | nsubj |
| 14 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 15 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wants | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wants | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 runs | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 runs | cc |
| 22 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knocks | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 fields | case |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 fields | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fields | det |
| 26 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 runs | obl |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 busy | mark |
| 28 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 busy | nsubj |
| 29 | else | else | ADV | _ | 28 everyone | advmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 busy | cop |
| 31 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happy | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mole | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock over | present | Mole | a fussy old rabbit | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want | present | a fussy old rabbit | sixpence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | sixpence not said here | Mole | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | Mole not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | present | Mole not said here | the fields | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | is | present | everyone | busy property | 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:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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