The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 32
«the point of the Rat's cudgel struck something that sounded hollow»; then they found «a solid-looking little door, painted a dark green.
Who acts: point, hummocks, looking little door · What happens: strike, sound, find, look, paint, point · To what, where: something, looking little door, dark green, cudgel · 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 (point, hummocks, looking little 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cudgel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cudgel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Rat | case |
| 8 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 struck | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sounded | nsubj |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | acl:relcl |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sounded | xcomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | parataxis |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 21 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 looking | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 solid | punct |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 door | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 door | amod |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 painted | punct |
| 27 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 door | acl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 green | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 green | amod |
| 30 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 painted | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | past | the point of the Rat's cudgel | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | past | hollow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | past | hummocks = hummock | a looking little door | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | paint in a quote | participle | a looking little door not said here | a dark green | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent green=Destination | ||||
| 6 | point in a quote | the Rat's cudgel | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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:32.
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, R7-rel-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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