The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 14

The Rat had been «swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks»; when the ducks stood on their heads he would «dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins».

Who acts: Rat, ducks · What happens: swim, stand, dive down, tickle, be · To what, where: river, heads, necks, chins

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, ducks), 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 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swimming	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 swimming	aux
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 swimming	punct
6	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 company	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 company	case
12	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 friends	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 company	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ducks	det
17	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 friends	appos
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 swimming	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 «	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 stood	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ducks	det
22	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dive	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 heads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stood	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dive	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dive	aux
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 dive	punct
30	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swimming	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 dive	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tickle	cc
33	tickle	tickle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dive	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 necks	nmod:poss
35	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tickle	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 where	punct
37	just	just	ADV	_	39 where	advmod
38	under	under	ADP	_	39 where	case
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 tickle	advcl
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 chins	nmod:poss
41	chins	chin	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 where	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 had	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 had	cop
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 had	mark
45	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 chins	acl:relcl
47	chins	chin	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 had	obj
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 dive	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swimming	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim in a quote	past · perfect · progressive	the Rat		the river	in company with Rat's friends	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory
2	stand	past	the ducks		ducks's heads		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	dive down in a quote	would	Rat			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	tickle in a quote	infinitive	Rat not said here	ducks's necks			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	ducks	ducks's chins not said here		have property	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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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