The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 0
While they eat, the Mole notices a line of bubbles moving along the water.
Who acts: they, Mole, bubbles · What happens: eat, notice, move · To what, where: line, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 (they, Mole, bubbles), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 eat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 notices | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mole | det |
| 6 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 notices | nsubj |
| 7 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 notices | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bubbles | case |
| 11 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 line | nmod |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bubbles | acl |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moving | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 notices | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | they | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | notice | present | the Mole | a line of bubbles | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | bubbles not said here | the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along water=Trajectory |
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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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