The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 24

When the Rat asks «Would you like to come over?», the Mole answers «rather pettishly» (a bit crossly) «Oh, it's all very well to talk», because he is new to the river and cannot see how to get across.

Who acts: Rat, you, Mole, sinuous · What happens: ask, like, come over, answer, be, not see · 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 (Rat, you, Mole, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 asks	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answers	advcl
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
6	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 answers	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mole	det
16	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 answers	nsubj
17	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 pettishly	punct
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 pettishly	advmod
20	pettishly	pettishly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 answers	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 pettishly	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 crossly	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crossly	obl:unmarked
25	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	20 pettishly	conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 crossly	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 talk	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Oh	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 talk	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 talk	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	36 talk	advmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 well	advmod
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 talk	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 talk	mark
36	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pettishly	conj
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 new	punct
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 new	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 new	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 new	cop
42	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pettishly	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 river	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 river	det
45	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 new	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 see	cc
47	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 see	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 see	advmod
49	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 new	conj
50	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 get	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 see	ccomp
53	across	across	ADV	_	52 get	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Rat		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	come over not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	present	the Mole	pettishly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	sinuous	all, talk, well property	tree rules
6	is	present	Mole	to the river; new property	tree rules
7	not see	can	Mole not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	get	to-infinitive		across property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:24.

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): 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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