The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 27

The book's animals are characters in a story; real weasels and foxes are not wicked, they just hunt to eat.

Who acts: animals, real weasels, weasels · What happens: be, not be, hunt, eat · To what, where: characters, story

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 (animals, real weasels, weasels), 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 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 book	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 characters	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 characters	cop
6	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 characters	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 weasels	punct
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weasels	amod
12	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wicked	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 foxes	cc
14	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weasels	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wicked	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wicked	advmod
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 characters	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hunt	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hunt	nsubj
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 hunt	advmod
21	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wicked	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hunt	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 characters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the book's animals	characters	a story		tree rules
2	not is	present	real weasels and foxes			wicked property	tree rules
3	hunt	present	weasels = weasel				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	weasels = weasel not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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:27.

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 ×1, 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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