The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 14
The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors by this time, sitting round the fire.»
Who acts: Rat · What happens: say, be, sit · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 season | punct |
| 6 | At | at | ADP | _ | 8 season | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 season | det |
| 8 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 safe | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 season | nmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | cop |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 safe | advmod |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 15 safe | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 safe | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 safe | advcl |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sitting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Rat | season; time | all, indoors, safe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit in a quote | gerund | Rat not said here | round the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.
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:14.
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): no change. 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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