The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 4
The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left a door-scraper lying about in the wood, that's all!
Who acts: Mole, someone, door scraper · What happens: not see, leave, lie · To what, where: door scraper, wood · 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, someone, door scraper), 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 | 10 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mole | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grumpy | cc |
| 6 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hurt | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 left | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 left | nsubj |
| 14 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 someone | amod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 see | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 scraper | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scraper | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 door | punct |
| 20 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Part | 20 scraper | acl |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 lying | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 's | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 all | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 all | cop |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 see | parataxis |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | the Mole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | someone | a door scraper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a door scraper not said here | the wood | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
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:4.
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, 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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