The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 2
Frost and mud keep them indoors, the river races past too fast for boating, and the Rat sleeps a lot and writes poems by the fire.
Who acts: Frost, river, Rat · What happens: keep, race, sleep, write · To what, where: them, lot, poems
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 (Frost, river, 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 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mud | cc |
| 3 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Frost | conj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 races | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 races | nsubj |
| 10 | races | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 11 | past | past | ADV | _ | 10 races | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 races | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 boating | case |
| 15 | boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fast | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeps | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sleeps | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rat | det |
| 19 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeps | nsubj |
| 20 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lot | det |
| 22 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeps | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 writes | cc |
| 24 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeps | conj |
| 25 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 writes | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 writes | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | 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 | keep | present | Frost and mud | them = they | indoors property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | race | present | the river | fast, past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | the Rat | a lot | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | write | present | the Rat not said here | poems | by the fire | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:2.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/2/