The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 9
The Rat flatly refuses: he's sticking to his river, and so is the Mole.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: refuse, stick
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 refuses | nsubj |
| 3 | flatly | flatly | ADV | _ | 4 refuses | advmod |
| 4 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sticking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sticking | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sticking | aux |
| 8 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 refuses | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 river | nmod:poss |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 so | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 so | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 Mole | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sticking | aux |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mole | det |
| 17 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticking | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuses | 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 | refuse | present | the Rat | flatly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stick | present · progressive | Rat | to Rat's river | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to river=Co-Patient |
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:9.
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. 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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