The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 0
While the Rat and the Otter argue about eels by the fire, the Badger takes the Mole on a tour with a lantern.
Who acts: Rat, Badger · What happens: argue, take · To what, where: Mole, tour
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (Rat, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 argue | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 argue | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Otter | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Otter | det |
| 6 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | conj |
| 7 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 takes | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 eels | case |
| 9 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 argue | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 argue | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 argue | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Badger | det |
| 15 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | nsubj |
| 16 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mole | det |
| 18 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 tour | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tour | det |
| 21 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 lantern | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lantern | det |
| 24 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tour | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | the Rat and the Otter | about eels; by the fire | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about eel=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the Badger | the Mole | a tour with a lantern | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mole=Theme on tour=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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:0.
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): 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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