The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 6
In a hole in the opposite bank something twinkles: an eye, then a whiskered brown face.
Who acts: something · What happens: twinkle · To what, where: hole
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 (something), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hole | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hole | det |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twinkles | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 6 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bank | amod |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hole | nmod |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 twinkles | nsubj |
| 9 | twinkles | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 eye | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 something | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hole | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 face | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 16 | whiskered | whiskered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eye | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 twinkles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | present | something | a hole in the opposite bank | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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