The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 22

The Mole had never seen a river before, and was «bewitched, entranced, fascinated»; it seemed to him «this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling» (sinuous = winding like a snake).

Who acts: Mole, it, sleek sinuous bodied animal, sinuous · What happens: not see, bewitch, entrance, fascinate, seem, chase · To what, where: river, sleek sinuous bodied animal, 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, it, sleek sinuous bodied animal, sinuous), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bewitched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bewitched	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bewitched	aux:pass
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 bewitched	punct
13	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seen	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entranced	punct
15	entranced	entrance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 bewitched	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fascinated	punct
17	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 bewitched	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 bewitched	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bewitched	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	obl
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 animal	punct
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 animal	det
26	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 animal	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sleek	punct
28	sinuous	sinuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 animal	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sinuous	punct
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bodied	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 full	punct
32	bodied	body	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 animal	amod
33	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seemed	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 chasing	punct
35	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 animal	acl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 chuckling	cc
37	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 chasing	conj
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 chuckling	punct
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	40 sinuous	punct
40	sinuous	sinuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 winding	nsubj
41	=	=	PUNCT	_	42 winding	punct
42	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 chasing	parataxis
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 snake	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 snake	det
45	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 winding	obl
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 winding	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	the Mole	a river		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus
2	bewitch in a quote	past · passive	the Mole not said here				tree rules
3	entrance in a quote	participle	the Mole not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	fascinate in a quote	participle	the Mole not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	seem	past	it	this sleek sinuous bodied animal	Mole		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	chase in a quote	gerund	this sleek sinuous bodied animal not said here				tree rules
7	chuckle in a quote	gerund	this sleek sinuous bodied animal not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	wind	gerund	sinuous			like a snake	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:22.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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