The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 8

At lunch the Mole tells the Badger how lovely it is to live underground: nothing can get at you, and you are your own master.

Who acts: Mole, nothing, you · What happens: tell, be, live, get · To what, where: Badger, lunch, own master · 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: who acts (Mole, nothing, you), 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	_	2 lunch	case
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Badger	det
7	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lovely	advmod
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tells	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lovely	expl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lovely	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 live	mark
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lovely	csubj
14	underground	underground	ADV	_	13 live	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 get	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tells	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 master	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 master	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 master	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 master	cop
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 master	amod
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Mole		the Badger	lunch		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent badger=Recipient
2	is	present					lovely property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive					underground property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	can	nothing				at you	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	you	your own master				tree rules

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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