The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 18
He met a rabbit «cleaning his silly face with his paws», and «had to cuff his head once or twice» (cuff = hit with an open paw) to get any sense out of him.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: meet, clean, have, cuff, hit, get · To what, where: rabbit, silly face, head, sense
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rabbit | det |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaning | punct |
| 6 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 met | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 face | amod |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaning | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 paws | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cleaning | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaning | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cuff | mark |
| 19 | cuff | cuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuff | obj |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 cuff | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 twice | cc |
| 24 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 once | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuff | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 cuff | punct |
| 27 | cuff | cuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuff | appos |
| 28 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 29 hit | punct |
| 29 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cuff | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 paw | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 paw | det |
| 32 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 paw | amod |
| 33 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hit | obl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuff | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 get | mark |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cuff | advcl |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 sense | det |
| 38 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 get | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Badger | a rabbit | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | clean in a quote | gerund | Badger not said here | Badger's silly face | with Badger's paws | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with paw=Instrument | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Badger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cuff in a quote | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | Badger's head | once property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 5 | hit | infinitive | Badger not said here | with a open paw | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with paw=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | any sense | out Badger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sense=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:18.
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, R8-pos-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.
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