The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 17
More of the song: «Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.» (roach = a small river fish; larder = food store) and «Everyone for what he likes!
Who acts: roach, we · What happens: swim, keep, like · To what, where: larder
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 (roach, we), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 song | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 More | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 undergrowth | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 undergrowth | punct |
| 7 | Slushy | slushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 undergrowth | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 undergrowth | amod |
| 9 | undergrowth | undergrowth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | appos |
| 10 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 swim | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roach | det |
| 12 | roach | roach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swim | nsubj |
| 13 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 undergrowth | acl:relcl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 swim | punct |
| 15 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 keep | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 undergrowth | parataxis |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 larder | nmod:poss |
| 19 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cool | punct |
| 21 | Cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 larder | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 full | cc |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Cool | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dim | cc |
| 25 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Cool | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 roach | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 roach | punct |
| 29 | roach | roach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 More | appos |
| 30 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 34 fish | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fish | det |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fish | amod |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fish | compound |
| 34 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roach | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 larder | punct |
| 36 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roach | conj |
| 37 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 39 store | punct |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 store | compound |
| 39 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roach | conj |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 roach | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Everyone | cc |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 43 Everyone | punct |
| 43 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 roach | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 what | case |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 Everyone | nmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 likes | nsubj |
| 47 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 what | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 More | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | present | the roach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | we | our larder | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larder=Theme | |||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | roach | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:17.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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