The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 0

The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast.

Who acts: door bell, Otter · What happens: clang, burst, hug, splutter, butter · To what, where: Rat, buttered toast

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (door bell, Otter), 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	5 bell	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 front	punct
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bell	compound
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clangs	nsubj
6	clangs	clang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bursts	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 splutters	cc
9	in	in	ADV	_	10 bursts	advmod
10	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clangs	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Otter	det
12	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bursts	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hugging	punct
14	hugging	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Otter	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hugging	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hugging	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 splutters	nsubj
20	splutters	splutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clangs	conj
21	through	through	ADP	_	24 toast	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 toast	nmod:poss
23	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 toast	amod
24	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 splutters	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clangs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clang	present	the door bell				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	burst	present	the Otter				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hug	gerund	the Otter not said here	the Rat		hard property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Co-Agent
4	splutter	present	Otter		Otter's buttered toast		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through toast=Location
5	butter	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:0.

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): 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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