The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 33
«"What's up, Ratty?" — "Snow is up," replied the Rat briefly; "or rather, down.
Who acts: Snow, Rat · What happens: be, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Snow, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 What | punct |
| 3 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 up | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 up | cop |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ratty | punct |
| 7 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 up | vocative |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ratty | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ratty | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 12 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 up | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 up | cop |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rat | det |
| 19 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 17 replied | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 down | cc |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 26 down | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rather | punct |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 up | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 « | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ratty vocative; up property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Snow | up property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the Rat | briefly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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