The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 10
Floods chase the Rat out of his house, and a big house like Toad's can burn or leak; but underground there is no weather at all.
Who acts: Floods, big house, weather · What happens: chase, burn, leak, be · To what, where: Rat, house
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 (Floods, big house, weather), 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 | Floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chase | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chase | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 house | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burn | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 Toad | case |
| 15 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Toad | case |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 burn | aux |
| 18 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chase | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 leak | cc |
| 20 | leak | leak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 burn | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 is | cc |
| 23 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 25 is | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chase | parataxis |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 weather | det |
| 27 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 weather | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Floods | the Rat | Badger's house | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rat=Theme out house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | burn | can | Toad's big house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leak | infinitive | Toad's big house not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no weather at all | there | underground property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×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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