The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 20
A rabbit «almost brushed him as it dashed past, his face set and hard, his eyes staring.
Who acts: rabbit, eyes · What happens: brush, dash, stare · To what, where: pattering
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 (rabbit, eyes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brushed | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 brushed | punct |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 brushed | advmod |
| 5 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brushed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 dashed | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dashed | nsubj |
| 9 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brushed | advcl |
| 10 | past | past | ADV | _ | 9 dashed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 face | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brushed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hard | cc |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 set | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | conj |
| 20 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 eyes | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brushed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush in a quote | past | a rabbit | pattering = patter | pattering's face obl:unmarked; almost property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 2 | dash in a quote | past | rabbit | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stare in a quote | gerund | pattering's eyes not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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