The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 21

The book says: «the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.»

Who acts: book, best part, other fellows · What happens: say, not be, rest, see, work · To what, where: yourself, other fellows · 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, best part, other fellows), 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	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 much	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 holiday	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 holiday	det
11	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 much	cop
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 much	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 resting	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 resting	aux
19	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 much	advcl
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 resting	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 much	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 fellows	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fellows	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellows	amod
28	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 see	obj
29	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	xcomp
30	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 busy	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the book			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	the best part of a holiday		much, perhaps property	tree rules
3	rest in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive	the best part of a holiday not said here	yourself		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the best part of a holiday not said here	all other fellows	busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus
5	work in a quote	gerund	all other fellows not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:21.

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, 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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