The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 24
The Mole thought it simply meant «some VERY careless and forgetful person has left his door-scraper lying about in the middle of the Wild Wood» and said he'd complain «to—to somebody or other».
Who acts: Mole, it, careless person, person · What happens: think, mean, leave, lie, say, complain · To what, where: door scraper · 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 (Mole, it, careless person, person), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 meant | nsubj |
| 5 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 6 meant | advmod |
| 6 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 person | det |
| 9 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 10 careless | advmod |
| 10 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgetful | cc |
| 12 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 careless | conj |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 meant | ccomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 scraper | nmod:poss |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scraper | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 door | punct |
| 19 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 left | advcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 middle | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 middle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 middle | det |
| 24 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wood | det |
| 27 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 28 Wood | amod |
| 28 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 middle | nmod |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 complain | nsubj |
| 33 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 complain | aux |
| 34 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 complain | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 — | mark |
| 37 | — | — | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 complain | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 somebody | case |
| 39 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 — | obl |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 » | cc |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 somebody | conj |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 somebody | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Mole | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | it | simply property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | some careless person | Mole's door scraper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | gerund | some careless person not said here | about the middle of the Wild Wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about middle=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | complain speech: other | would | person | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | — in a quote | to-infinitive | person not said here | to somebody | 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:24.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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