The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 8
At first it's fun: twigs crackle, logs trip him, fungus on stumps looks like funny faces.
Who acts: Wood, twigs, logs, fungus · What happens: be, crackle, trip, look · 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 (Wood, twigs, logs, fungus), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 fun | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | cop |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 crackle | punct |
| 7 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crackle | nsubj |
| 8 | crackle | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trip | punct |
| 10 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trip | nsubj |
| 11 | trip | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trip | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looks | punct |
| 14 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stumps | case |
| 16 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fungus | nmod |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 faces | case |
| 19 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 faces | amod |
| 20 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looks | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wood | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crackle | present | twigs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trip | present | logs | countryside | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | present | fungus on stumps | like funny faces | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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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