The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 33

The backwater has a weir (a low wall across a river that water tumbles over) and «a restless dripping mill-wheel» turning beside a «grey-gabled mill-house».

Who acts: backwater, water, restless dripping mill wheel · What happens: have, tumble over, drip, turn, gable · To what, where: weir, river, gabled mill house

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 (backwater, water, restless dripping mill wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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