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 24
«a firm paw gripped him by the back of his neck.
Who acts: firm paw · What happens: grip · To what, where: Mole
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 (firm paw), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 gripped | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 paw | det |
| 3 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paw | amod |
| 4 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gripped | nsubj |
| 5 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gripped | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gripped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gripped | 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 | grip in a quote | past | a firm paw | Mole | by the back of Mole's neck | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer by back=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:24.
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): no change. 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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