The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 32
In this old story the Rat carries them to scare off enemies.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: carry, scare off · To what, where: goloshes, old story, enemies
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carries | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 carries | nsubj |
| 7 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carries | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 scare | mark |
| 10 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 carries | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 scare | compound:prt |
| 12 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scare | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | the Rat | goloshes = golosh | this old story | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in story=Location | |||
| 2 | scare off | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | enemies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
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:32.
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. 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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