The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 20
The Rat cried «Hooray!» and then «Hooray-oo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray!» and «fell to executing a feeble jig in the snow» (a jig = a lively hopping dance).
Who acts: Rat · What happens: cry, fall, execute · To what, where: feeble jig, snow » · Speech: someone speaks here
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 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hooray | punct |
| 5 | Hooray | hooray | INTJ | _ | 3 cried | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hooray | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 ray | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ray | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 ray | advmod |
| 10 | « | « | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ray | compound |
| 11 | Hooray | Hooray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 « | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 oo | punct |
| 13 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 « | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ray | punct |
| 15 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 « | list |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ray | punct |
| 17 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ray | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 oo | punct |
| 19 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 « | appos |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ray | punct |
| 21 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ray | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ray | punct |
| 23 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 ray | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 29 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 30 executing | mark |
| 30 | executing | execute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fell | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 jig | det |
| 32 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 jig | amod |
| 33 | jig | jig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 executing | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 » | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 snow | det |
| 36 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 » | compound |
| 37 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jig | nmod |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 jig | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 jig | det |
| 40 | jig | jig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 » | appos |
| 41 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 45 dance | punct |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 dance | det |
| 43 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 dance | amod |
| 44 | hopping | hopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dance | compound |
| 45 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jig | conj |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 jig | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | the Rat not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | execute in a quote | gerund | the Rat not said here | a feeble jig | snow » | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jig=Patient |
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:20.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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