The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 32
The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in his paw».
Who acts: Rat, Mole · What happens: let, sleep, lie, wait · To what, where: Mole
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 (Rat, Mole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 10 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 11 waiting | advmod |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lay | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pistol | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pistol | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pistol | det |
| 15 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waiting | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 paw | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paw | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pistol | nmod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the Rat | Mole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | infinitive | Mole not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | past | the Rat not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | gerund | the Rat not said here | with a pistol in Rat's paw; patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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