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 13

The Mole sees «a streak of bubbles that I see travelling along the surface of the water»; the Rat says «Bubbles?

Who acts: Mole, streak, Rat · What happens: see, travel, say · To what, where: streak, surface, Bubbles · 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 (Mole, streak, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 streak	det
6	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bubbles	case
8	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 streak	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 see	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 streak	acl:relcl
12	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 see	xcomp
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 surface	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surface	det
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 travelling	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Rat	det
22	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sees	parataxis
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 Bubbles	punct
25	Bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 says	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	present	the Mole	a streak of bubbles		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer streak=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	present	the Mole = mole	a streak of bubbles		tree rules
3	travel in a quote	gerund	a streak of bubbles not said here		the surface of the water	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along surface=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	present	the Rat	Bubbles		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bubble=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:13.

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, 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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