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 8
They watch him splash past, rolling badly but rowing his hardest.
Who acts: sailing, Toad · What happens: watch, splash, roll, row · To what, where: hardest
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 (sailing, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 splash | nsubj |
| 4 | splash | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 watch | ccomp |
| 5 | past | past | ADV | _ | 4 splash | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rolling | punct |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 splash | advcl |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 rolling | advmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 rowing | cc |
| 10 | rowing | row | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rolling | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hardest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 rowing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | sailing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | splash | infinitive | Toad | past property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | Toad not said here | badly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | row | gerund | Toad not said here | Toad's hardest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme |
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:8.
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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