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 9

The Otter starts a funny story about Toad — and stops mid-sentence: a May-fly wobbles past, there's a swirl and a «cloop!», and both the May-fly and the Otter are gone.

Who acts: Otter, May fly, swirl · What happens: start, stop, wobble, be · To what, where: funny story, mid-sentence

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 (Otter, May fly, swirl), 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 Otter	det
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 starts	nsubj
3	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starts	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Toad	case
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 starts	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stops	cc
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starts	conj
12	mid-sentence	mid-sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stops	obl:unmarked
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 starts	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fly	det
15	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fly	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 May	punct
17	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wobbles	nsubj
18	wobbles	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starts	conj
19	past	past	ADV	_	18 wobbles	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 's	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 's	expl
22	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starts	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 swirl	det
24	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 's	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cloop	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cloop	det
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 cloop	punct
28	cloop	cloop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swirl	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 cloop	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 cloop	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 gone	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 gone	cc
33	both	both	CCONJ	_	37 fly	cc:preconj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fly	det
35	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 fly	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 May	punct
37	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gone	nsubj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Otter	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Otter	det
40	Otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fly	conj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 gone	cop
42	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 starts	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	the Otter	a funny story		about Toad	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality
2	stop	present	the Otter not said here	mid-sentence			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wobble	present	a May fly			past property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	does	present	a swirl and a cloop		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the May fly and the Otter			gone property	tree rules

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:9.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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