The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 37
«The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: see, pass, waver, mind · To what, where: mind · 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), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passing | aux |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wavered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wavered | cc |
| 13 | wavered | waver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the Rat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | past · progressive | Rat's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||||
| 3 | waver in a quote | past | the Rat not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | Rat | nom mind «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): R2-punct-next ×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.
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