The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 1
At last he suggests a rest on some tree-stumps by a copse (a small wood) — and the sob the Mole has been holding back bursts out, then another and another, until he is crying openly.
Who acts: Mole, sob · What happens: suggest, hold back, burst out, cry · To what, where: rest, last, sob
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (Mole, sob), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggests | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suggests | nsubj |
| 4 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggests | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stumps | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 stumps | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stumps | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 stumps | punct |
| 11 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rest | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 copse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 copse | det |
| 14 | copse | copse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggests | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 copse | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 bursts | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bursts | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sob | det |
| 23 | sob | sob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bursts | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mole | det |
| 25 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holding | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 holding | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 holding | aux |
| 28 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sob | acl:relcl |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 holding | advmod |
| 30 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggests | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 bursts | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggests | punct |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 another | advmod |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 suggests | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 another | cc |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 another | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 crying | punct |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 crying | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 crying | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 crying | aux |
| 41 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 suggests | conj |
| 42 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 41 crying | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Mole | a rest | last | on some tree stumps; by a copse; another obl | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | ||
| 2 | hold back | present · perfect · progressive | the Mole | the sob not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sob=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst out | present | the sob | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | Mole | openly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:1.
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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