The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 2
«Funny!» Then he starts digging in the snow like mad.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: start, dig · To what, where: snow
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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Funny | punct |
| 2 | Funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 starts | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Funny | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Funny | punct |
| 5 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 starts | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 starts | nsubj |
| 7 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 starts | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 digging | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 mad | case |
| 13 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 digging | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Rat | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dig | gerund | Rat not said here | the snow | like mad | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location |
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:2.
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): no change. 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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