The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 1

So he sits on the bank and makes up a little song about them, «Ducks' Ditty».

Who acts: Rat · What happens: sit, make up · To what, where: bank, little song

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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 (Rat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 makes	cc
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 makes	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 song	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 song	amod
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 song	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Ditty	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 Ditty	punct
17	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Ditty	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 Ducks	case
19	Ditty	ditty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 Ditty	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Rat			the bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	make up	present	Rat not said here	a little song				about necks = neck	tree rules

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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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