The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 29
«The end was indeed nearer than even the Rat suspected.» — the writer warns us something is coming.
Who acts: end, Rat, writer, something · What happens: be, suspect, warn, come · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (end, Rat, writer, something), 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 | _ | 6 nearer | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nearer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nearer | cop |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 nearer | advmod |
| 6 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 suspected | mark |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 suspected | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rat | det |
| 10 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 suspected | nsubj |
| 11 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nearer | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspected | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspected | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 warns | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 writer | det |
| 16 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warns | nsubj |
| 17 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nearer | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 warns | obj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 warns | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 warns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the end | indeed, near property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suspect in a quote | past | the Rat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | the writer | us | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | present · progressive | something | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:29.
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 ×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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