The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 34
Old words: «implored» = begged; «heartiness» = warm eagerness; «make his acquaintance» = meet him; «mellowed» = softened and warm-coloured with age; «shipped his sculls» = pulled the oars into the boat.
Who acts: Old words, Mole · What happens: implore, beg, make, meet, mellow, soften · To what, where: acquaintance, Mole, sculls, oars, boat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Old words, 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 implored | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 implored | punct |
| 5 | implored | implore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 words | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 implored | punct |
| 7 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 6 » | punct |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 implored | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 » | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 heartiness | punct |
| 11 | heartiness | heartiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 heartiness | punct |
| 13 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 15 eagerness | punct |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eagerness | amod |
| 15 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 22 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 mellowed | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 mellowed | punct |
| 27 | mellowed | mellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | advcl |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 mellowed | punct |
| 29 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 30 softened | punct |
| 30 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mellowed | ccomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 coloured | cc |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 coloured | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 warm | punct |
| 34 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 softened | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 age | case |
| 36 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coloured | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 shipped | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 shipped | punct |
| 39 | shipped | ship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | parataxis |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 sculls | nmod:poss |
| 41 | sculls | scull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 shipped | obj |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 shipped | punct |
| 43 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 44 pulled | punct |
| 44 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 oars | det |
| 46 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 pulled | obj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 boat | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 boat | det |
| 49 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pulled | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore in a quote | participle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness | Mole's acquaintance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | ||||
| 4 | meet | infinitive | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness not said here | Mole | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | mellow in a quote | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | soften | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | colour | participle | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness not said here | with age | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | ship in a quote | past | Mole's sculls | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme | |||||
| 9 | pull | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness not said here | the oars | the boat | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme | |||
| 10 | acquaint in a quote | Mole | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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 ×3, R7-rel-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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