The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 1

The Rat ties it up with his handkerchief and looks closely: a very clean cut, not from a branch — from the sharp edge of something metal.

Who acts: Rat · What happens: tie up, look · To what, where: shin

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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), 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 ties	nsubj
3	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ties	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 ties	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 handkerchief	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 handkerchief	nmod:poss
8	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ties	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looks	cc
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ties	conj
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 clean	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clean	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 clean	advmod
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ties	parataxis
16	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clean	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 branch	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 branch	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 branch	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 branch	det
21	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 edge	punct
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 edge	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 edge	amod
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clean	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 metal	case
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 edge	nmod
29	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ties	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	present	the Rat	shin				with Rat's handkerchief	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient
2	look	present	the Rat not said here					closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:1.

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 ×2, 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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