The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 21
The Mole's thoughts «ran a good deal on supper»; the Rat walks ahead «his shoulders humped, his eyes fixed on the straight grey road».
Who acts: thoughts, Rat, shoulders, eyes, Mole · What happens: run, walk, hump, fix, think · To what, where: good deal, supper, straight grey road · 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 (thoughts, Rat, shoulders, eyes), 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 | 4 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mole | case |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 supper | case |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | nmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 walks | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 15 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walks | nsubj |
| 16 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 16 walks | advmod |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 humped | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 humped | nsubj |
| 21 | humped | hump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 walks | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eyes | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fixed | nsubj |
| 25 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 humped | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 road | det |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 road | amod |
| 29 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 road | amod |
| 30 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fixed | obl |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 humped | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | the Mole's thoughts | a good deal | supper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | present | the Rat | ahead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hump in a quote | past | Mole's shoulders | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fix in a quote | participle | Mole's eyes | the straight grey road | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think | the Mole | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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:21.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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