The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 5
At last a feeble voice answers from an old beech tree: «Ratty!
Who acts: feeble voice · What happens: answer · To what, where: last
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 (feeble voice), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answers | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 4 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answers | nsubj |
| 6 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 10 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answers | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ratty | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ratty | punct |
| 14 | Ratty | ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answers | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ratty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | a feeble voice | last | from a old beech tree | tree rules |
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: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): R6-punct-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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