The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 0
Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket.
Who acts: they, Rat · What happens: set off, climb up, come back, stagger · To what, where: hole, wicker picnic basket
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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 (they, Rat), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 set | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbs | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rat | det |
| 7 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 climbs | nsubj |
| 8 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 climbs | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hole | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbs | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comes | cc |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 climbs | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 16 | staggering | stagger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 comes | advcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 basket | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 19 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wicker | compound |
| 20 | wicker | wicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 basket | compound |
| 21 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 basket | compound |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 staggering | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | present | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | climb up | present | the Rat | Rat's hole | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | the Rat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stagger | gerund | the Rat not said here | a wicker picnic basket | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under basket=Trajectory |
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:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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