The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 9
The Mole digs, mostly to humour his friend, who he thinks is going a bit mad.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: dig, humour, think, go · To what, where: friend · 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), 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 digs | nsubj |
| 3 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 humour | punct |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 humour | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 humour | mark |
| 7 | humour | humour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 digs | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 humour | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 going | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thinks | nsubj |
| 13 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friend | acl:relcl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thinks | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bit | det |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 going | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 digs | 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 | dig | present | the Mole | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | humour | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | Mole's friend | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Mole | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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