The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 10

The Mole begs to unpack the basket by himself, gasping at every packet, and then, starving after his early start, he tucks in happily.

Who acts: Mole, Badger · What happens: beg, unpack, gasp, starve, tuck in, start · To what, where: basket, packet

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, Badger), 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 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begs	nsubj
3	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 unpack	mark
5	unpack	unpack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begs	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unpack	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 unpack	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gasping	punct
11	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 unpack	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 packet	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 packet	det
14	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gasping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 starving	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 starving	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 starving	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 starving	punct
19	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begs	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 start	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 start	nmod:poss
22	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 start	amod
23	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 starving	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tucks	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tucks	nsubj
26	tucks	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 begs	conj
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 tucks	advmod
28	happily	happily	ADV	_	26 tucks	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	the Mole					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	unpack not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here	the basket			by Badger	tree rules
3	gasp	gerund	the Mole not said here		every packet			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	starve	gerund	the Mole not said here			after Badger's early start; then		tree rules
5	tuck in	present	Badger				happily property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	start		Badger					nom start «event transitive»: poss=agent

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:10.

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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