The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 27
The Mole: «Can we EAT a doormat? or sleep under a door-mat?
Who acts: we · What happens: eat, sleep · To what, where: doormat, door mat
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 (we), 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 | 7 EAT | dep |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 EAT | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 EAT | punct |
| 5 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 EAT | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 EAT | nsubj |
| 7 | EAT | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 doormat | det |
| 9 | doormat | doormat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 EAT | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 EAT | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sleep | cc |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 EAT | conj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 mat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mat | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mat | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 door | punct |
| 17 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sleep | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | can | we | a doormat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doormat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | a door mat | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:27.
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 ×1, 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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