The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 18
«And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the night was closing in.»
Who acts: Rat, night · What happens: be, close in
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, night), 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 | _ | 7 alone | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 closing | discourse |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 he | appos |
| 4 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 3 he | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 unarmed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 unarmed | cop |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 unarmed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unarmed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 unarmed | cc |
| 10 | unarmed | unarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 closing | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 far | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 far | cc |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 unarmed | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 help | det |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 far | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 closing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 closing | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 closing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 closing | aux |
| 22 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 closing | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 alone | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 alone | 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 in a quote | past | Rat | alone, far, unarm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close in in a quote | past · progressive | the night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:18.
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 ×4. 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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