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 32
Neither was the Otter.» — the Otter dived after the May-fly to eat it.
Who acts: Neither, Otter · What happens: be, dive, eat · To what, where: Otter, fly · 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 (Neither, 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 | Neither | neither | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 Otter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Otter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Otter | det |
| 4 | Otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | parataxis |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Otter | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Otter | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dived | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Otter | det |
| 9 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | nsubj |
| 10 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 fly | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fly | det |
| 13 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fly | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 May | punct |
| 15 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dived | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dived | 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 | is a | past | Neither | the Otter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dive in a quote | past | the Otter | after the May fly | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Otter not said here | fly | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:32.
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. 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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