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 15
«A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out».
Who acts: broad glistening muzzle, Otter · What happens: glisten, show, haul out · To what, where: muzzle, edge, Otter
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 (broad glistening muzzle, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 muzzle | det |
| 3 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 muzzle | amod |
| 4 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 muzzle | amod |
| 5 | muzzle | muzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 showed | obj |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hauled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hauled | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Otter | det |
| 17 | Otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hauled | nsubj |
| 18 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hauled | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hauled | compound:prt |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | 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 | glisten in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | show in a quote | past | a broad glistening muzzle | muzzle | the edge of the bank | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | haul out in a quote | past | the Otter | Otter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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