The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 5
Then the pattering begins: little feet, closing in from every side like hail.
Who acts: pattering, little feet · What happens: begin, close in · To what, where: side
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, little feet), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begins | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pattering | det |
| 3 | pattering | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begins | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 closing | punct |
| 9 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 feet | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 closing | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 closing | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 hail | case |
| 15 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the pattering | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | close in | gerund | little feet not said here | every side like hail | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:5.
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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