The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 4
Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg and puts a plaster on it.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: give, wash, put · To what, where: dry clothes, plates, cut leg, plaster
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 (Badger), 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 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clothes | amod |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slippers | cc |
| 7 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clothes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washes | punct |
| 9 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 10 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leg | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Mole | case |
| 12 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leg | amod |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washes | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 puts | cc |
| 15 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plaster | det |
| 17 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puts | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 puts | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Badger | dry clothes and slippers | plates = plate | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 2 | wash | present | Badger not said here | Mole's cut leg | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | present | Badger not said here | a plaster | on Badger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent plaster=Theme on it=Destination |
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: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): 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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