The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 12
The Rat looks very grave, and stands «in deep thought for a minute or two».
Who acts: Rat · What happens: look, stand · To what, where: deep thought
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 grave | advmod |
| 5 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stands | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stands | cc |
| 8 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | conj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 thought | case |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | amod |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stands | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minute | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stands | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 minute | conj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 stands | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the Rat | grave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the Rat not said here | deep thought | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location |
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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:12.
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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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