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 35
Packing up: a plate «staring up at him from the grass», a fork «which anybody ought to have seen», and «the mustard pot, which he had been sitting on without knowing it».
Who acts: plate, etiquette · What happens: pack up, stare up, have, see, sit on, know · To what, where: plate, grass, mustard pot
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 (plate, etiquette), 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 | Packing | pack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Packing | compound:prt |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 plate | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plate | det |
| 5 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Packing | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 staring | punct |
| 7 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 plate | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 staring | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 staring | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 grass | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grass | det |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staring | obl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 staring | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fork | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fork | det |
| 17 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plate | conj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 anybody | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | obj |
| 20 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 ought | nsubj |
| 21 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fork | acl:relcl |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 have | xcomp |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 fork | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pot | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pot | cc |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 pot | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pot | det |
| 30 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pot | compound |
| 31 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plate | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sitting | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 sitting | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sitting | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sitting | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 sitting | aux |
| 37 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 pot | acl:relcl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 sitting | compound:prt |
| 39 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 40 knowing | mark |
| 40 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 sitting | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 knowing | obj |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 pot | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Packing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | gerund | a plate and a fork and the mustard pot | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stare up in a quote | gerund | a plate and a fork and the mustard pot not said here | the grass | at etiquette | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | ought | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | see in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | sit on in a quote | past · perfect · progressive | etiquette | the mustard pot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | gerund | etiquette not said here | plate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:35.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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