The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 23

«He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.» — he liked the countryside «undecorated, hard, and stripped of its finery».

Who acts: loosestrife, bones · What happens: get down, be, like, strip · To what, where: countryside

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 (loosestrife, bones), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 liked	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 bones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fine	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fine	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 strong	cc
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fine	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 simple	cc
20	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fine	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 liked	nsubj
25	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 countryside	det
27	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 liked	obj
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 undecorated	punct
29	undecorated	undecorated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countryside	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hard	punct
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 undecorated	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stripped	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stripped	cc
34	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 liked	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 finery	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 finery	nmod:poss
37	finery	finery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stripped	obl
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 liked	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 liked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get down in a quote	past · perfect	loosestrife		to the bare bones of play result; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bone=Result
2	is in a quote	past	bones = bone		fine property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		bones = bone not said here			tree rules
4	be in a quote		bones = bone not said here			tree rules
5	like	past	loosestrife	the countryside		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot countryside=Theme
6	strip in a quote	past	loosestrife not said here		of play's finery	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23.

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. 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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