The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 24

«he knew it at last, in all its fullness ... that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!» (vainly = without success).

Who acts: pattering, Rat · What happens: know, try, shield · To what, where: rabbit, last, pattering, Terror

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 (pattering, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fullness	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 fullness	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fullness	det
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fullness	nmod:poss
11	fullness	fullness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
12	...	...	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	parataxis
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shield	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tried	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tried	aux
19	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	20 tried	advmod
20	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 thing	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 shield	mark
22	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shield	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 Terror	case
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 from	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Terror	det
27	Terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shield	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Wood	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Wood	det
30	Wild	Wild	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Wood	flat
31	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Terror	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Wood	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 Wood	punct
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 success	punct
35	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	38 success	advmod
36	=	=	PUNCT	_	35 vainly	punct
37	without	without	ADP	_	38 success	case
38	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Wood	parataxis
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 success	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	past	pattering = patter	rabbit	last	in rabbit's fullness	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	try in a quote	past · perfect	the Rat			vainly property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shield not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here	pattering = patter	the Terror of the Wild Wood		tree rules

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:24.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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