The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 26
The others are «Weasels—and stoats—and foxes»: «they break out sometimes ... you can't really trust them».
Who acts: others, rabbits, you · What happens: be, break out, not trust · To what, where: Weasels, rabbits
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 (others, rabbits, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Weasels | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Weasels | cop |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Weasels | punct |
| 5 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Weasels | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stoats | cc |
| 8 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Weasels | conj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 foxes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 foxes | cc |
| 11 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Weasels | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Weasels | punct |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 break | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 break | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 break | nsubj |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Weasels | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 break | compound:prt |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 break | advmod |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 24 trust | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 trust | nsubj |
| 21 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 trust | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 trust | advmod |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 trust | advmod |
| 24 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 break | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 trust | obj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Weasels | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Weasels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the others | Weasels and stoats and foxes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break out in a quote | present | rabbits = rabbit | sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not trust in a quote | can | you | rabbits = rabbit | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:26.
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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