The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 20
Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and the Rat answers that the bank is too crowded: «Otters, kingfishers, dabchicks, moorhens» all wanting you to do something (a dabchick is a small diving water bird).
Who acts: Rat, bank, you · What happens: pass, answer, be, want, do · To what, where: word, you, something, small water bird · 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, bank, you), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 you | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 river | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 river | appos |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 one | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pass | mark |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADV | _ | 12 pass | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 river | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 river | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 answers | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 answers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Rat | det |
| 21 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 answers | nsubj |
| 22 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 river | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 crowded | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bank | det |
| 25 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crowded | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 crowded | cop |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 crowded | advmod |
| 28 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 answers | ccomp |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 Otters | punct |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 Otters | punct |
| 31 | Otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 crowded | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kingfishers | punct |
| 33 | kingfishers | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Otters | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dabchicks | punct |
| 35 | dabchicks | dabchick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Otters | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 moorhens | punct |
| 37 | moorhens | moorhen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Otters | conj |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 Otters | punct |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 Otters | conj |
| 40 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 all | advcl |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 wanting | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 do | mark |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wanting | xcomp |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 do | obj |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 dabchick | punct |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 dabchick | det |
| 47 | dabchick | dabchick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 something | conj |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 bird | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 bird | det |
| 50 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 bird | amod |
| 51 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 water | compound |
| 52 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 bird | compound |
| 53 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 do | ccomp |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 bird | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 river | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | to-infinitive | a word | with property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present | the Rat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the bank | crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | gerund | the bank not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | you not said here | a small water bird | 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:20.
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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-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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