The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 26
«Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start»; he wanted to ask the Mole «if he knew a good rhyme for something or other».
Who acts: coal, fire, Mole, flame · What happens: slip, crackle, send up, wake, want, ask · To what, where: spurt, good rhyme · 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 (coal, fire, Mole, flame), 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 | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coal | det |
| 4 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fire | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crackled | nsubj |
| 9 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crackled | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sent | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spurt | det |
| 14 | spurt | spurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flame | case |
| 16 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spurt | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 woke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 woke | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 woke | nsubj |
| 20 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 start | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 start | det |
| 23 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 woke | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 woke | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 woke | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 ask | mark |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Mole | det |
| 31 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obj |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 ask | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 knew | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ask | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rhyme | det |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rhyme | amod |
| 38 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 knew | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 something | case |
| 40 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 rhyme | nmod |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 other | cc |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 something | conj |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 something | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip in a quote | past | a coal | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | crackle in a quote | past | the fire | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send up in a quote | past | the fire not said here | a spurt of flame | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spurt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wake in a quote | past | fire | with a start | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | want | past | fire | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | fire | a good rhyme | for something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rhyme=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | spurt in a quote | flame | nom spurt «event intransitive»: of=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:26.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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