The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 10

The Rat just says «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» and invites him to come and live with him, and promises to teach him to row and swim.

Who acts: Rat · What happens: say, be, invite, come, live, promise · To what, where: Rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 wet	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wet	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wet	obl:unmarked
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Rat	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Rat	det
13	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Rat	compound
14	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wet	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 Rat	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 invites	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 invites	cc
18	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 invites	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 invites	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 live	cc
23	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 live	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 promises	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 promises	cc
28	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 teach	mark
30	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promises	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 teach	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 row	mark
33	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 teach	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swim	cc
35	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 row	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	the Rat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present				to a Water Rat; a little obl:unmarked; wet property	tree rules
3	invite	present	the Rat not said here	Rat			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rat not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	infinitive	Rat not said here			with Rat	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
6	promise speech: promise	present	the Rat not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here		Rat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	row	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
9	swim	infinitive	the Rat not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:10.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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