The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 9

The Rat is amazed, and dreamily tells him there is nothing «half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats» — and crashes into the bank while he says it.

Who acts: Rat, nothing · What happens: be, tell, do, mess about, crash, say · To what, where: Rat, boats, bank, boat · 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, nothing), 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 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 amazed	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	cop
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tells	cc
7	dreamily	dreamily	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 tells	advmod
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tells	iobj
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tells	ccomp
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 is	nsubj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 nothing	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 worth	advmod
17	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
18	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 worth	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 messing	mark
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	21 messing	advmod
21	messing	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 nothing	acl
22	about	about	ADP	_	21 messing	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 boats	case
24	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 messing	obl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 messing	punct
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 crashes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crashes	cc
28	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 messing	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 bank	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bank	det
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crashes	obl
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 says	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 says	nsubj
34	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crashes	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 says	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Rat				amazed property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the Rat not said here		Rat		dreamily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do in a quote	gerund	nothing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mess about in a quote	gerund				boats	simply property	tree rules
6	crash	present					into the bank result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bank=Result
7	say speech: assert	present	Rat	boat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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