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 6

The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks again — until a firm paw grabs his neck.

Who acts: water, Mole, firm paw · What happens: freeze, sink, come up, splutter, grab · To what, where: neck

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 (water, Mole, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freezing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	aux
4	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sinks	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sinks	nsubj
8	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 comes	punct
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sinks	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 comes	compound:prt
12	spluttering	splutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 comes	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sinks	punct
14	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sinks	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 sinks	advmod
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 sinks	punct
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 grabs	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 paw	det
19	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 paw	amod
20	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grabs	nsubj
21	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sinks	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grabs	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 freezing	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	freeze	present · progressive	the water			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink	present	the Mole			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come up	present	the Mole not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	splutter	gerund	the Mole not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sink	present	the Mole not said here		again	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	grab	present	a firm paw	Mole's neck		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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:6.

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, R7-rel-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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