The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 0
The Mole has long wanted to meet the famous Badger, whom everyone talks about and nobody sees.
Who acts: Mole, everyone, nobody · What happens: want, meet, talk about, see · To what, where: famous Badger
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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, everyone, nobody), 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 | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanted | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Badger | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Badger | amod |
| 10 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 talks | punct |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 talks | obj |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 talks | nsubj |
| 14 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Badger | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 sees | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sees | cc |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 sees | nsubj |
| 18 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 talks | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | 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 | want | present · perfect | the Mole | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | the famous Badger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | talk about | present | everyone | the famous Badger | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | present | nobody | about property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:0.
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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