The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 1
When the Mole asks what's inside, the Rat rattles off a huge list of food all in one breath, and the Mole begs him to stop — it's too wonderful.
Who acts: Mole, Rat · What happens: ask, be, rattle off, beg, stop, list · To what, where: huge list, Rat, food · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mole, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 asks | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mole | det |
| 3 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rattles | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 inside | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 inside | cop |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rattles | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rat | det |
| 10 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rattles | nsubj |
| 11 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 rattles | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 list | det |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 list | amod |
| 15 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rattles | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 list | nmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 food | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 breath | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 breath | nummod |
| 21 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 all | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 begs | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 begs | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mole | det |
| 25 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 begs | nsubj |
| 26 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rattles | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 begs | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 stop | mark |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 begs | xcomp |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 wonderful | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wonderful | nsubj |
| 32 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wonderful | cop |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 wonderful | advmod |
| 34 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rattles | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rattles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Mole | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | inside property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rattle off | present | the Rat | a huge list of food | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent list=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | the Mole | Rat | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Mole | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | list | food | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:1.
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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