The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 11

They dig — and there, in the side of a snow-bank, is a solid little dark-green door with an iron bell-pull and a brass plate: MR.

Who acts: mounds · What happens: dig, be · To what, where: solid little green door

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 (mounds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 there	cc
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 dig	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 side	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 bank	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bank	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bank	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 snow	punct
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 door	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 door	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 door	det
18	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 door	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 door	amod
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 green	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 dark	punct
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 door	amod
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	29 pull	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pull	det
26	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pull	amod
27	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pull	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 bell	punct
29	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 plate	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 plate	det
32	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plate	compound
33	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pull	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 MR.	punct
35	MR.	MR.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 plate	appos

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	mounds = mound			there			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	mounds = mound not said here	a solid little green door				with a iron bell pull and a brass plate	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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:11.

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. 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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