The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 15

The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myself», and says «we can't ... he lives in the very middle of the Wild Wood».

Who acts: Rat · What happens: not venture, call, say, live · To what, where: Rat, very middle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	7 ventured	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ventured	aux
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 ventured	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 ventured	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 ventured	advmod
7	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 call	mark
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ventured	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 home	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 home	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 home	amod
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obl
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 ventured	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 ventured	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ventured	conj
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 ca	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ca	nsubj
23	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 says	ccomp
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 ca	advmod
25	...	...	PUNCT	_	27 lives	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lives	nsubj
27	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 middle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
30	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 middle	amod
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lives	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Wood	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Wood	det
34	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Wood	compound
35	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 middle	nmod
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 lives	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not venture in a quote	present · perfect	the Rat	the Rat = rat			tree rules
2	call in a quote	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here			on Rat; at Rat's own home	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at home=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	the Rat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	live in a quote	present	Rat		the very middle of the Wild Wood		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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