The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 9
But the Rat is far ahead, worried about the coming snow, and calls back, «Come on, Mole, we'll come for it tomorrow!» So poor Mole, his heart torn in two, turns his back on his home and follows his friend.
Who acts: Rat, we, poor Mole · What happens: be, come, call back, come on, tear, turn · To what, where: heart, two, back, home, friend · 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, we, poor Mole), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 worried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worried | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worried | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 worried | advmod |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 8 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 snow | amod |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calls | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calls | cc |
| 15 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worried | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 calls | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calls | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 19 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 calls | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 Come | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mole | punct |
| 22 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Come | vocative |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 worried | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 worried | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 worried | punct |
| 32 | So | so | ADV | _ | 42 turns | advmod |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Mole | amod |
| 34 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 turns | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 heart | punct |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Mole | conj |
| 38 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 heart | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 two | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 torn | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mole | punct |
| 42 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worried | advcl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 back | nmod:poss |
| 44 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 turns | obj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 home | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 home | nmod:poss |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 turns | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 follows | cc |
| 49 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 turns | conj |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 friend | nmod:poss |
| 51 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 follows | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Rat | about the coming snow; far, worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | call back speech: assert | present | the Rat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come on in a quote | infinitive | Mole vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | future | we | tomorrow | for snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | tear | participle | Mole's heart not said here | two | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | turn | present | poor Mole and Mole's heart | Mole's back | Mole's home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 8 | follow | present | poor Mole and Mole's heart not said here | Mole's friend | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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.
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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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