The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 12
Rat and Mole were coming back «after a long day's outing with Otter, hunting and exploring on the wide uplands» where small streams that feed their River begin.
Who acts: Rat, small streams · What happens: come back, hunt, explore, feed, begin · To what, where: wide uplands, River
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of 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, small streams), 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 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Mole | cc |
| 3 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rat | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 outing | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 outing | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 outing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 day | case |
| 13 | outing | outing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Otter | case |
| 15 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 outing | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hunting | punct |
| 17 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 coming | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 exploring | cc |
| 19 | exploring | explore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hunting | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 uplands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 uplands | det |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 uplands | amod |
| 23 | uplands | upland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 exploring | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 streams | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 small | advmod |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 streams | amod |
| 27 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 begin | nsubj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 feed | nsubj |
| 29 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 streams | acl:relcl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 River | nmod:poss |
| 31 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 feed | obj |
| 32 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 uplands | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past · progressive | Rat and Mole | after a long day's outing with Otter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | explore in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | the wide uplands | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feed | present | small streams | Rat's River | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | begin | present | small streams | the wide uplands not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upland=Eventuality |
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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-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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