The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 24
At lunch-time the two hedgehogs, hungry again after their porridge, looked up at the Badger without speaking, too shy to say so.
What happens: look up, speak, say · 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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lunch | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hedgehogs | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hedgehogs | nummod |
| 7 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hedgehogs | amod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 hungry | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 porridge | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 porridge | nmod:poss |
| 13 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hungry | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Badger | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Badger | det |
| 19 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 speaking | mark |
| 21 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 looked | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shy | punct |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 shy | advmod |
| 24 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 shy | advcl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 say | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | time | at the Badger | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at badger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:24.
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, R7-rel-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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