The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 16
The passage is «long, gloomy, and, to tell the truth, decidedly shabby»; other tunnels branch off from a central hall, «mysterious and without apparent end».
Who acts: passage, other tunnels · What happens: be, tell, branch off · To what, where: truth · 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 (passage, other tunnels), 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 passage | det |
| 2 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gloomy | punct |
| 7 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shabby | punct |
| 16 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 17 shabby | advmod |
| 17 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 branch | punct |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tunnels | amod |
| 21 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 branch | nsubj |
| 22 | branch | branch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 branch | compound:prt |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hall | det |
| 26 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hall | amod |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 branch | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mysterious | punct |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 mysterious | punct |
| 30 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 end | cc |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 end | case |
| 33 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 end | amod |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mysterious | conj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 mysterious | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the passage | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | the passage not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the passage not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the passage not said here | decidedly property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | branch off | present | other tunnels | from a central hall | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from hall=Co-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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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