The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 14
He pats both their heads and says «This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out.»
Who acts: Mole, This · What happens: pat, say, not be, be · To what, where: heads, sort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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, This), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pats | nsubj |
| 2 | pats | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | DET | _ | 5 heads | det:predet |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pats | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pats | conj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 pats | punct |
| 9 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sort | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sort | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sort | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 animals | case |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animals | amod |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sort | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 out | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 out | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 says | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pats | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 pats | discourse |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | present | Mole | words's heads | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mole not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | This | the sort | night | for small animals | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | out property | 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:14.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/14/