The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 18

In February floods the brown water runs by his best bedroom window; in dry times the mud «smells like plum-cake» and he finds things «careless people have dropped out of boats».

Who acts: brown water, mud, careless people · What happens: run, smell, find, drop out · To what, where: February floods, things, boats · 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 (brown water, mud, careless people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 floods	case
2	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 floods	compound
3	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 runs	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 window	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 window	nmod:poss
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 window	amod
11	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 window	compound
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 smells	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 times	case
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 times	amod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 smells	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mud	det
18	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smells	nsubj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 smells	punct
20	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 runs	parataxis
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 cake	case
22	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cake	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 plum	punct
24	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smells	obl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 smells	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 finds	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finds	nsubj
28	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 runs	conj
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 finds	obj
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 dropped	punct
31	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dropped	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dropped	aux
34	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 things	acl:relcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 boats	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 boats	case
37	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dropped	obl
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 dropped	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 runs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the brown water		February floods		by water's best bedroom window	tree rules
2	smell in a quote	present	the mud			time	like plum cake	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	present	mud	things				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	drop out in a quote	present · perfect	careless people	boats				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

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:18.

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, 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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