The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 5

It seems alive — chattering, chuckling, sparkling — and he sits on the bank, spellbound, as if it were telling him stories.

Who acts: It, Mole, bank · What happens: seem, chatter, chuckle, sparkle, sit, tell · To what, where: bank, stories, 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 (It, Mole, bank), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	xcomp
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 chattering	punct
5	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 seems	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuckling	punct
7	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 chattering	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sparkling	punct
9	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 chattering	conj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 sits	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sits	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sits	nsubj
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bank	det
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sits	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spellbound	punct
18	spellbound	spellbound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bank	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 telling	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 telling	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 telling	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 telling	aux
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seems	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	iobj
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 telling	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It				alive property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	chatter	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chuckle	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sparkle	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	present	Mole			the bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
6	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	bank	stories	Mole			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

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:5.

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, 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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