The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 18

In winter «cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors» (miry = muddy), and the swollen river raced past «with a speed that mocked at boating of any sort».

Who acts: swollen river, speed, sort · What happens: keep, race, mock, boat · To what, where: ways, boating

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 (swollen river, speed, sort), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 winter	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 frost	cc
6	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ways	cc
8	miry	miry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ways	amod
9	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 winter	conj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 indoors	advmod
13	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 miry	punct
16	miry	miry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 indoors	advcl
17	=	=	PUNCT	_	18 muddy	punct
18	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 miry	conj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 miry	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raced	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 raced	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
23	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 river	amod
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raced	nsubj
25	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	conj
26	past	past	ADV	_	25 raced	advmod
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 speed	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 speed	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 speed	det
30	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raced	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 mocked	nsubj
32	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 speed	acl:relcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 boating	case
34	boating	boating	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mocked	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sort	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 sort	det
37	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 boating	nmod
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 raced	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	past		ways = way		winter	indoors property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	race	past	the swollen river				with a speed; past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mock in a quote	past	a speed		boating of any sort			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	boat in a quote		any sort					nom boating «act intransitive»: of=agent

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:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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