The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 1
All the river bank was in a panic, he says — Rat and Mole gone all night! — but he guessed they'd be at Badger's, because anyone in trouble ends up at Badger's.
Who acts: river bank, Otter, Rat, they, anyone · What happens: be, say, go, guess, end up · To what, where: panic · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (river bank, Otter, Rat, they), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bank | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bank | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bank | compound |
| 4 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 panic | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 panic | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 panic | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 panic | det |
| 8 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 panic | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rat | punct |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mole | cc |
| 15 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rat | conj |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 guessed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 guessed | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 guessed | nsubj |
| 23 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Badger | nsubj |
| 25 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 Badger | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 Badger | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Badger | case |
| 28 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 guessed | ccomp |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Badger | case |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ends | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 ends | mark |
| 32 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 ends | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 trouble | case |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 anyone | nmod |
| 35 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 guessed | advcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 ends | compound:prt |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 Badger | case |
| 38 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 ends | obl |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Badger | case |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 panic | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all river bank | a panic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Otter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | participle | Rat and Mole | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | Otter | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | they | at Badger | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | end up | present | anyone | at Badger | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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