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 21
Badger: «a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it» peered out of a hedge, grunted «H'm!
Who acts: Badger · What happens: peer, grunt
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 (Badger), 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 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peered | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 5 | stripy | stripy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shoulders | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoulders | amod |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Badger | conj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 peered | punct |
| 14 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hedge | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hedge | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hedge | det |
| 18 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grunted | punct |
| 20 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 peered | conj |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 grunted | punct |
| 22 | H | H | INTJ | _ | 20 grunted | discourse |
| 23 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 H | dep |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 peered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | past | Badger and high shoulders behind foot | out a hedge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out hedge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grunt | past | Badger and high shoulders behind foot not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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:21.
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.
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