The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 17

In the snowy wood: snow slid off branches «with a flop!», there were «snow-castles and snow-caverns», and «robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves». (Conceited = too proud of yourself.)

Who acts: snow, « snow castles, « robins, castles · What happens: slide off, be, perch, hop, do · To what, where: branches, snowy wood, perky conceited way, snow

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 (snow, « snow castles, « robins, castles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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