The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 10
Next morning they come down very late and find two young hedgehogs eating porridge.
Who acts: fines, two young hedgehogs · What happens: come down, find, eat · To what, where: two young hedgehogs, porridge
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (fines, two young hedgehogs), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 late | advmod |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hedgehogs | nummod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hedgehogs | amod |
| 12 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hedgehogs | acl |
| 14 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | 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 | come down | present | fines = fine | morning | down, late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present | fines = fine not said here | two young hedgehogs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | two young hedgehogs not said here | porridge | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |
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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:10.
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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