The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 14
The Mole is «staggered at the size, the extent, the ramifications of it all» (ramifications = branches, more and more passages leading off) — passages, store-chambers, «pillars, the arches, the pavements».
Who acts: passages, extent · What happens: stagger, lead off, ramify · To what, where: Mole, size, passages
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 (passages, extent), 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 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staggered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 staggered | aux:pass |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 staggered | punct |
| 5 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 size | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 size | det |
| 8 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staggered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 extent | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 extent | det |
| 11 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staggered | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ramifications | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ramifications | det |
| 14 | ramifications | ramification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 staggered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ramifications | nmod |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 it | det |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 staggered | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 ramifications | punct |
| 20 | ramifications | ramification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ramifications | parataxis |
| 21 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 22 branches | punct |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ramifications | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 more | punct |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 ramifications | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 passages | cc |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 more | conj |
| 27 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 more | conj |
| 28 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 passages | acl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 leading | compound:prt |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 leading | punct |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 passages | punct |
| 32 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 leading | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 chambers | punct |
| 34 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 chambers | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 store | punct |
| 36 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 passages | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pillars | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 pillars | punct |
| 39 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 passages | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 arches | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 arches | det |
| 42 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 passages | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 pavements | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 pavements | det |
| 45 | pavements | pavement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 passages | conj |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 staggered | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 staggered | 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 | stagger in a quote | present · passive | the Mole | the size | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer ramification=Result | ||||
| 2 | lead off | gerund | passages not said here | passages and store chambers and pillars and the arches and the pavements | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | ramify in a quote | extent | nom ramification «act intransitive»: of=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.
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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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