The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 13

The Rat says the other animals call him «a mean beast» who cuts it «very fine» (gives only just enough) — a joke, as the basket is enormous.

Who acts: Rat, other animals, mean beast, basket · What happens: say, call, cut, give, be · To what, where: Rat, beast, enough · 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 (Rat, other animals, mean beast, basket), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 beast	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beast	det
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beast	amod
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 beast	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cuts	nsubj
15	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 beast	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cuts	obj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 fine	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fine	advmod
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cuts	xcomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 fine	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fine	parataxis
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 enough	advmod
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 enough	advmod
25	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gives	obj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 joke	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 joke	det
29	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 enormous	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 enormous	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 basket	det
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 enormous	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 enormous	cop
35	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 joke	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Rat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	present	the other animals		Rat		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	cut	present	a mean beast	beast		fine property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	give	present		enough			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent enough=Recipient joke=Theme
5	is	present	the basket			enormous property	tree rules

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:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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