The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 7

The Rat explains: river-bankers never come here alone; you need to know the passwords, signs, sayings, plants and tricks — unless you're Badger or Otter.

Who acts: Rat, river bankers, you · What happens: explain, not come, need, know, be · To what, where: passwords, Badger · 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 (Rat, river bankers, you), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explains	nsubj
3	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 explains	punct
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bankers	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 river	punct
7	bankers	banker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explains	ccomp
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 come	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passwords	det
18	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 signs	punct
20	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passwords	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sayings	punct
22	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passwords	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plants	punct
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passwords	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tricks	cc
26	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	conj
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 plants	punct
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 Badger	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 Badger	nsubj
30	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Badger	cop
31	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	advcl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 Otter	cc
33	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Badger	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explains	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the Rat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	present	river bankers		here	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the passwords and signs and sayings and plants and tricks			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer password=Stimulus
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Badger or Otter			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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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