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 25

It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel him laughing, right down his arm and through his paw».

Who acts: paw, Rat, Mole · What happens: be, laugh, feel · To what, where: Rat

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 (paw, Rat, Mole), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Rat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Rat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughing	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughing	aux
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	10 laughing	advmod
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Rat	conj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mole	det
13	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feel	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Rat	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	obj
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 feel	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arm	punct
19	right	right	ADV	_	22 arm	advmod
20	down	down	ADP	_	22 arm	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laughing	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 paw	cc
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 paw	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 paw	nmod:poss
26	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arm	conj
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Rat	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Rat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	paw	the Rat		tree rules
2	laugh	past · progressive	Rat		evidently property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	could	the Mole	Rat		tree rules
4	laugh	gerund	Rat not said here		down Mole's arm and Mole's paw	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:25.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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