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 34
The Mole «had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: have, brush away · To what, where: tear
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 brush | mark |
| 6 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 brush | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tear | det |
| 9 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brush | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 two | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tear | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 back | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brush | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 paw | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 paw | nmod:poss |
| 17 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | 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 | have in a quote | past | the Mole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | brush away in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | a tear | with the back of Mole's paw; away property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Destination with 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:34.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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