The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 33

Old words: «confronted» = turned to face; «braced himself up» = got ready to be brave; «hearken» = listen; «slacken pace» = slow down; «grave» = serious and worried; «at a smart pace» = quickly.

Who acts: Old words · What happens: confront, turn, brace up, get, be, hearken · To what, where: Old words, face, Rat, slacken pace · 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 (Old words), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 confronted	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 confronted	punct
5	confronted	confront	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 words	acl:relcl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 confronted	punct
7	=	=	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 face	case
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 braced	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 braced	punct
13	braced	brace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 braced	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 braced	compound:prt
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 braced	punct
17	=	=	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
18	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 braced	ccomp
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	22 brave	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brave	cop
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ready	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hearken	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 hearken	punct
25	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	conj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 hearken	punct
27	=	=	PUNCT	_	28 listen	punct
28	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 hearken	parataxis
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 slow	punct
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 »	punct
31	slacken	slacken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pace	amod
32	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slow	obj
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 slow	punct
34	=	=	PUNCT	_	33 »	punct
35	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 slow	compound:prt
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 »	punct
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 grave	punct
39	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 serious	amod
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 grave	punct
41	=	=	PUNCT	_	42 serious	punct
42	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turned	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 worried	cc
44	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 serious	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
46	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 pace	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 pace	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 pace	det
49	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pace	amod
50	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 pace	punct
52	=	=	PUNCT	_	51 »	punct
53	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	confront in a quote	participle		Old words not said here			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	Old words		face	at a smart pace; quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to face=Source at pace=Trajectory
3	brace up in a quote	past	Old words not said here	Rat			tree rules
4	get	participle	Old words not said here			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	to-infinitive	Old words not said here			brave property	tree rules
6	hearken in a quote	infinitive	Old words not said here				tree rules
7	listen	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	slow down	infinitive	Old words not said here	slacken pace			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient

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:33.

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): R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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