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 27
«Trot up and down the towing-path as hard as you can, till you're warm and dry again, while I dive for the luncheon-basket.» (a towing-path is a path along a river where horses once pulled boats)
Who acts: you, Rat, towing path · What happens: trot up, be, dive, pull · To what, where: towing path, path, horses · 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 (you, Rat, towing path), 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 | _ | 2 Trot | punct |
| 2 | Trot | trot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Trot | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 path | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 7 | towing | towing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 towing | punct |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Trot | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Trot | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 warm | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 warm | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 warm | nsubj |
| 18 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 warm | cop |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 path | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dry | cc |
| 21 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 warm | conj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 warm | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dive | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 dive | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 dive | nsubj |
| 26 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 warm | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 basket | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 basket | det |
| 29 | luncheon | luncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 basket | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 luncheon | punct |
| 31 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dive | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trot | punct |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trot | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 path | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 path | det |
| 36 | towing | towing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 path | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 towing | punct |
| 38 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 path | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 path | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 path | det |
| 41 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | parataxis |
| 42 | along | along | ADP | _ | 44 river | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 river | det |
| 44 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 path | nmod |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 pulled | advmod |
| 46 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 48 pulled | advmod |
| 48 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 river | acl:relcl |
| 49 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 pulled | obj |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 path | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot up in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the towing path | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | again | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | dive in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | for the luncheon basket | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for basket=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a towing path | a path | along a river | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pull | past · passive | horses | once property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme boat=Result |
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.
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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 ×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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