The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 12
The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length.
Who acts: Mole, step · What happens: fall over, praise, think, step · To what, where: delight, clever step, great length, Rat
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 (Mole, step), 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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 backwards | advmod |
| 5 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 3 falls | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 praises | cc |
| 9 | praises | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 falls | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 step | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Rat | case |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 step | amod |
| 14 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praises | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 step | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 step | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 by | punct |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 step | nmod |
| 19 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 step | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 length | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 length | amod |
| 22 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thinking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall over | present | the Mole | delight | backward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in delight=Location | |||
| 2 | praise | present | the Mole not said here | the Rat's clever step | by step | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | step not said here | great length | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | step | step | the Rat | nom step «act transitive»: poss=patient by=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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:12.
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 ×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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