The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 5
They went away; wind and rain and growing trees buried it, and the badgers moved back in.
Who acts: builders, wind, badgers · What happens: go away, grow, bury, move back · To what, where: rain
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 (builders, wind, badgers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 wind | punct |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buried | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rain | cc |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wind | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trees | cc |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wind | conj |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moved | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 badgers | det |
| 16 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 moved | nsubj |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | builders = builder | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bury | past | wind and rain and growing trees | rain | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move back | past | the badgers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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): 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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