The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 5
The Otter asks the Mole to fry him some ham, and the Mole sets the hedgehogs to do it.
Who acts: Otter, Mole · What happens: ask, fry, set, do · To what, where: Mole, ham, Otter, hedgehogs
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, Mole), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mole | det |
| 5 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fry | mark |
| 7 | fry | fry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fry | iobj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 ham | det |
| 10 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sets | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sets | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mole | det |
| 14 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sets | nsubj |
| 15 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hedgehogs | det |
| 17 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sets | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sets | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Otter | the Mole | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | some ham | Otter | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient ham=Result | |||
| 3 | set | present | the Mole | the hedgehogs | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hedgehog=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | Mole | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:5.
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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