The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 11
The Rat sees how much the Mole wants it, and wavers.
Who acts: Rat, Mole · What happens: see, want, waver · To what, where: caravan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 wants | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mole | det |
| 7 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wants | nsubj |
| 8 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sees | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wants | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wavers | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wavers | cc |
| 12 | wavers | waver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sees | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the Rat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the Mole | caravan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | waver | present | the Rat not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:11.
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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