The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 23
Why dance jigs around a door-scraper?» — a door-scraper is a metal bar by a front door for scraping mud off your boots.
Who acts: you, door scraper, front door · What happens: dance, be, scrape · To what, where: jigs, door scraper, metal bar, mud, boots · 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 (you, door scraper, front door), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 dance | advmod |
| 2 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | jigs | jig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dance | obj |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 scraper | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scraper | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scraper | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 door | punct |
| 8 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dance | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scraper | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scraper | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 door | punct |
| 15 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bar | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bar | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bar | det |
| 18 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bar | compound |
| 19 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dance | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 22 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 door | amod |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bar | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 scraping | mark |
| 25 | scraping | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 door | acl |
| 26 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scraping | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 boots | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 boots | nmod:poss |
| 29 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scraping | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | imperative | you not said here | jigs | a door scraper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a door scraper | a metal bar | by a front door | tree rules | |||
| 3 | scrape in a quote | gerund | a front door not said here | mud | your boots | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mud=Theme off boot=Trajectory |
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:23.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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