The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 2
Drifting along, the Mole trails a paw in the water and dreams.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: drift along, trail, dream · To what, where: paw, water
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), 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 | Drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 trails | advcl |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Drifting | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trails | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mole | det |
| 5 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trails | nsubj |
| 6 | trails | trail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 paw | det |
| 8 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trails | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paw | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dreams | cc |
| 13 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trails | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trails | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift along | gerund | the Mole not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trail | present | the Mole | a paw | the water | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | dream | present | the Mole not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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:2.
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): no change. 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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