The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 40
The Rat's plan: a dell (small valley) «where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky» — look for «a cave or hole with a dry floor to it» to rest; «the snow may leave off, or something may turn up».
Who acts: ground, snow, something, Rat · What happens: seem, look, rest, leave off, turn up, plan · 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 (ground, snow, something, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Rat | case |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 dell | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dell | det |
| 7 | dell | dell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | appos |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 valley | punct |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 valley | amod |
| 10 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dell | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 valley | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 seems | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dell | acl:relcl |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 hilly | advmod |
| 18 | hilly | hilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seems | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 humpy | cc |
| 20 | humpy | humpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hilly | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hummocky | cc |
| 22 | hummocky | hummocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hilly | conj |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plan | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 cave | case |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 cave | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cave | det |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 hole | cc |
| 31 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cave | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 floor | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 floor | det |
| 34 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 floor | amod |
| 35 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cave | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 38 » | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 floor | nmod |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 cave | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 rest | mark |
| 40 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 » | xcomp |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 leave | punct |
| 42 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 46 leave | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 snow | det |
| 44 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 leave | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 leave | aux |
| 46 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 rest | ccomp |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 leave | compound:prt |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 turn | punct |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 turn | cc |
| 50 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 52 turn | nsubj |
| 51 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 turn | aux |
| 52 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 leave | conj |
| 53 | up | up | ADP | _ | 52 turn | compound:prt |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 52 turn | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | the ground | hilly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | for a cave with a dry floor ground or hole | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cave=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave off in a quote | may | the snow | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | turn up in a quote | may | something | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | plan | the Rat | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:40.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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