The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 16
The Otter knew «when people were in any fix (= trouble) they mostly went to Badger, or else Badger got to know of it somehow».
Who acts: Otter, people, Badger · What happens: know, be, go, get · To what, where: fix, Badger · 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 (Otter, people, Badger), 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 Otter | det |
| 2 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fix | advmod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fix | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fix | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fix | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 fix | det |
| 10 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | advcl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 trouble | punct |
| 12 | = | = | SYM | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fix | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 trouble | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 16 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Badger | case |
| 19 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 got | advmod |
| 23 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 know | mark |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 got | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 know | obl |
| 29 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 26 know | advmod |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Otter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | people | any fix | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | people | Badger | mostly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to badger=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | Badger | else property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | of trouble; somehow property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:16.
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 ×3. 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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