The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 4
Then the Mole asks the favour he's been waiting to ask: will the Rat take him to meet Mr.
Who acts: Mole, Rat · What happens: ask, wait, take, meet · To what, where: favour, Mole, Mr. · 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 (Mole, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asks | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mole | det |
| 3 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 favour | det |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 waiting | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 waiting | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 waiting | aux |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 favour | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waiting | xcomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rat | det |
| 16 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obj |
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 | ask speech: ask | present | the Mole | the favour | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | wait | present · progressive | Mole | the favour not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Mole not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | future | the Rat | Mole | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | Mr. | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr.=Co-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.
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:4.
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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