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 12
It's not as fun as unpacking — he finds a forgotten plate, then the Rat points out a fork, and last of all he finds he's been sitting on the mustard pot — but he gets it done without losing his temper.
Who acts: basket, Mole, Rat · What happens: not be, unpack, find, forget, point out, sit · To what, where: forgotten plate, fork, mustard pot, basket, temper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (basket, Mole, Rat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fun | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fun | advmod |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 unpacking | mark |
| 7 | unpacking | unpack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fun | advcl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 finds | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finds | nsubj |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plate | det |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plate | amod |
| 13 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 points | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 points | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rat | det |
| 17 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 points | nsubj |
| 18 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 finds | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 points | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fork | det |
| 21 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 points | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 last | cc |
| 24 | last | last | ADV | _ | 5 fun | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 last | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 finds | nsubj |
| 28 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 all | conj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sitting | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 sitting | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 sitting | aux |
| 32 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 finds | ccomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 pot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pot | det |
| 35 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pot | compound |
| 36 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sitting | obl |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 done | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 gets | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gets | nsubj |
| 40 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gets | obj |
| 42 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 gets | xcomp |
| 43 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 44 losing | mark |
| 44 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 done | advcl |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 temper | nmod:poss |
| 46 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 losing | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | basket | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unpack | gerund | basket not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | present | Mole | a forgotten plate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Topic | ||||
| 4 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | point out | present | the Rat | a fork | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient | |||
| 6 | find | present | Mole | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sit | present · perfect · progressive | Mole | the mustard pot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pot=Location | ||||
| 8 | get | present | Mole | basket | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | participle | basket not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | lose | gerund | basket not said here | Mole's temper | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | ||||
| 11 | temper | Mole | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:12.
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): 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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