The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 4
One afternoon, while the Rat dozes in his armchair hunting for rhymes, the Mole quietly decides to go out by himself, explore the Wild Wood, and perhaps meet Mr.
Who acts: Rat, Mole · What happens: doze, hunt, decide, go out, explore, meet · To what, where: armchair, Wild Wood, Mr.
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, Mole), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 afternoon | nummod |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decides | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decides | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 dozes | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dozes | nsubj |
| 7 | dozes | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 decides | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 armchair | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 armchair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | armchair | armchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dozes | obl |
| 11 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dozes | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 rhymes | case |
| 13 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hunting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mole | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mole | det |
| 16 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decides | nsubj |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 decides | advmod |
| 18 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decides | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 go | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 explore | punct |
| 25 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wood | det |
| 27 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Wood | flat |
| 28 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 explore | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 meet | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 meet | cc |
| 31 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 32 meet | advmod |
| 32 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 33 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 meet | obj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze | present | the Rat | Rat's armchair | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the Rat not said here | for rhymes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for rhyme=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | present | the Mole | afternoon | quietly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | by Rat | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | explore | infinitive | the Mole not said here | the Wild Wood | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Location | ||||
| 6 | meet | infinitive | the Mole not said here | Mr. | perhaps property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr.=Co-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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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