The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 5
The Mole squeezes his paw in the dark and offers to run home with him at dawn.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: squeeze, offer, run · To what, where: paw, dark
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 (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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 paw | nmod:poss |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dark | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offers | cc |
| 10 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 squeezes | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offers | xcomp |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 dawn | case |
| 17 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | the Mole | Mole's paw | the dark | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in dark=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | offer | present | the Mole not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | dawn | with Mole; home property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |
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:5.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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