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 20

The Otter says he came to the backwater for «a moment's peace» and then says sorry because that sounds as if he didn't want to meet them — he puts his foot in it, then tries to take it back.

Who acts: Otter, that, moment · What happens: say, come, sound, not want, meet, put · To what, where: backwater, crowds, foot · 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 (Otter, that, moment), 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 Otter	det
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 backwater	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 backwater	det
8	backwater	backwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	14 peace	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 peace	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peace	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 moment	case
14	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 peace	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 says	advmod
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 says	xcomp
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 sounds	mark
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 sounds	nsubj
22	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 says	advcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 want	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 want	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 want	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 want	advmod
28	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sounds	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 meet	mark
30	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 meet	obj
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 puts	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 puts	nsubj
34	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foot	nmod:poss
36	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 puts	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 puts	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tries	punct
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 tries	advmod
41	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 take	mark
43	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tries	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 take	obj
45	back	back	ADV	_	43 take	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Otter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	Otter		the backwater		for a moment's peace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to backwater=Initial_Location
3	say speech: apologize	present	the Otter not said here			then	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sound	present	that					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not want	past · do-support	Otter					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	Otter not said here	crowds = crowd				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
7	put	present	Otter	Otter's foot	foot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination
8	try	present	the Otter not said here			then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	take back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Otter not said here	foot				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	pacify in a quote		a moment					nom peace «state 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:20.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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