The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 25

Meanwhile the Rat dozed, «his paper of half-finished verses slipped from his knee ... and he wandered by the verdant banks of dream-rivers» (verdant = green).

Who acts: Rat, paper · What happens: doze, finish, slip, wander · Speech: someone speaks here

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, paper), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 dozed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dozed	nsubj
4	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paper	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 paper	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paper	nmod:poss
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slipped	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 verses	case
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 finished	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
12	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 verses	amod
13	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 paper	nmod
14	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dozed	parataxis
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 knee	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knee	nmod:poss
17	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slipped	obl
18	...	...	PUNCT	_	21 wandered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wandered	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wandered	nsubj
21	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 slipped	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 banks	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 banks	det
24	verdant	verdant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 banks	amod
25	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wandered	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 rivers	case
27	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rivers	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 dream	punct
29	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 banks	nmod
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 wandered	punct
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 verdant	punct
32	verdant	verdant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wandered	parataxis
33	=	=	SYM	_	34 green	dep
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 verdant	conj
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 verdant	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dozed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	doze	past	the Rat	meanwhile property	tree rules
2	finish in a quote	participle			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	slip in a quote	past	Rat's paper of finished verses	from Rat's knee	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from knee=Co-Patient
4	wander in a quote	past	Rat	by the verdant banks of dream rivers	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:25.

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 ×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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