The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 13

For an hour or two they stumble on, pretending every tree is an old friend, falling into holes, soaked and bruised.

Who acts: laughter, tree · What happens: stumble on, pretend, be, fall, soak, bruise · To what, where: old friend, holes

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (laughter, tree), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stumble	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hour	conj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stumble	nsubj
7	stumble	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 stumble	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pretending	punct
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stumble	advcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 friend	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 friend	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friend	amod
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pretending	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 falling	punct
18	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pretending	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 holes	case
20	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 falling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 soaked	punct
22	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 falling	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bruised	cc
24	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 soaked	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stumble	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stumble on	present	laughter		hour		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	pretend	gerund	laughter not said here				tree rules
3	is a	present	every tree	a old friend			tree rules
4	fall	gerund	laughter not said here			into holes result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hole=Result
5	soak	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	bruise	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:13.

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): no change. 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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