The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 11
They got lost in the snow on the way to school and knocked at Badger's back door.
What happens: lose, knock · To what, where: fines, snow
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 snow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snow | det |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocked | cc |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 15 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 door | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Badger | case |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | compound |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | fines = fine | the snow | on the way to school | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | knock | past | at Badger's back door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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:11.
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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