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 4
The Mole digs at the water, misses it completely, flips over onto the Rat, grabs the side — and Sploosh!
Who acts: Mole · What happens: dig, miss, flip over, grab · To what, where: Sploosh, water, Rat, side
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 | 3 digs | nsubj |
| 3 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 digs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 misses | punct |
| 8 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 digs | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 misses | obj |
| 10 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 8 misses | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flips | punct |
| 12 | flips | flip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 digs | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 flips | advmod |
| 14 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 16 Rat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rat | det |
| 16 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flips | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grabs | punct |
| 18 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 digs | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grabs | obj |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sploosh | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Sploosh | cc |
| 23 | Sploosh | Sploosh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 digs | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 digs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | the Mole | Sploosh | at the water | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent sploosh=Instrument at water=Theme | |||
| 2 | miss | present | the Mole not said here | water | completely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | flip over | present | the Mole not said here | the Rat | over property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent onto rat=Destination | |||
| 4 | grab | present | the Mole not said here | the side | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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:4.
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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