The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 34

From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact», and hurry home to the river «that never made them afraid with any amazement».

Who acts: paths, river · What happens: look back, hurry, not make · To what, where: river, paths

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 (paths, river), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 stile	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stile	det
3	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dense	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 dense	punct
12	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 menacing	punct
14	menacing	menace	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dense	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 compact	punct
16	compact	compact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dense	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 dense	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hurry	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hurry	cc
20	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 look	conj
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 hurry	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hurry	obl
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 river	acl:relcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 amazement	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 amazement	det
33	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	present	paths = path			at the wood; from a stile	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from stile=Theme
2	hurry	infinitive	paths = path not said here		the river	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination
3	not make in a quote	past	the river	paths = path		with any amazement; afraid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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:34.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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