The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 7
He asks the Otter to lunch and sends the little hedgehogs home to their mother, with sixpence each and a pat on the head.
Who acts: Otter · What happens: ask, send · To what, where: Otter, little hedgehogs, mother
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), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Otter | det |
| 4 | Otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lunch | case |
| 6 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sends | cc |
| 8 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hedgehogs | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hedgehogs | amod |
| 11 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sends | obj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 sends | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sends | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sixpence | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sixpence | case |
| 18 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sends | obl |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 pat | det |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pat | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pat | det |
| 22 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sixpence | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pat | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Otter | the Otter | to lunch | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent otter=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | present | Otter not said here | the little hedgehogs | hedgehogs's mother | with sixpence and each pat on the head; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme to mother=Destination |
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:7.
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 ×2. 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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