The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 8
The Mole feels lively underground — he is a digger, and Badger's house suits him; the Rat, used to a breezy river bedroom, feels sleepy and shut in.
Who acts: Mole, house, Rat · What happens: feel, be, suit, use · To what, where: digger, Badger
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 (Mole, house, Rat), 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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 4 lively | advmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 digger | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 digger | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 digger | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 digger | det |
| 10 | digger | digger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suits | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 suits | cc |
| 13 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Badger | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suits | nsubj |
| 16 | suits | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 suits | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 feels | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rat | det |
| 20 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 feels | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Rat | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bedroom | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bedroom | det |
| 25 | breezy | breezy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bedroom | amod |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bedroom | compound |
| 27 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feels | punct |
| 29 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | conj |
| 30 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feels | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shut | cc |
| 32 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sleepy | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 shut | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the Mole | lively property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Mole | a digger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suit | present | Badger's house | Badger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | past | the Rat not said here | to a breezy river bedroom | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | the Rat | sleepy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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