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 7
The Rat and the Otter laugh: Toad is always mad about something new — sailing, then punting, then a house-boat — and always gets bored of it.
Who acts: Rat, Toad · What happens: laugh, be, punt, bore
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 (Rat, Toad), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Otter | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Otter | det |
| 5 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | conj |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Toad | punct |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mad | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mad | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 mad | advmod |
| 11 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 laugh | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 mad | obl |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 something | amod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sailing | punct |
| 16 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 something | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 punting | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 punting | advmod |
| 19 | punting | punt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sailing | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 boat | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 boat | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boat | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boat | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 house | punct |
| 25 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sailing | conj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 bored | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bored | cc |
| 28 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 30 bored | advmod |
| 29 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 bored | aux:pass |
| 30 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mad | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bored | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | 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 | laugh | present | the Rat and the Otter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Toad | about something; always, mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punt | gerund | Toad not said here | then | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bore | present · passive | Toad not said here | of boat; always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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:7.
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, R7-rel-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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