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 1
The Rat chirrups, and up climbs the Otter, shaking himself and grumbling «Greedy beggars!
Who acts: Otter · What happens: chirrup, climb, shake, grumble · To what, where: Otter, Greedy beggars
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 (Otter), 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 | 3 chirrups | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chirrups | compound |
| 3 | chirrups | chirrup | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbs | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 climbs | cc |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 climbs | advmod |
| 7 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chirrups | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Otter | det |
| 9 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 climbs | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaking | punct |
| 11 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 climbs | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 shaking | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grumbling | cc |
| 14 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 shaking | conj |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 beggars | punct |
| 16 | Greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beggars | amod |
| 17 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grumbling | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 chirrups | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chirrup | present | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | climb | present | the Otter | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the Otter not said here | Otter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grumble speech: other | gerund | the Otter not said here | Greedy beggars | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Topic |
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:1.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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