The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 11

The Mole's nose quivers… a quick run, a stop, a try back, then a sure advance — over a ditch, through a hedge, across a field, and down a tunnel.

Who acts: nose · What happens: quiver, try back

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 (nose), 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 nose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mole	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quivers	nsubj
5	quivers	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	…	…	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 run	det
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 run	amod
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quivers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stop	det
12	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quivers	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quivers	conj
15	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 a	parataxis
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 try	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 advance	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 advance	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 advance	det
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 advance	amod
21	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	parataxis
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 ditch	punct
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 ditch	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ditch	det
25	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 advance	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hedge	punct
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 hedge	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hedge	det
29	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 field	punct
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tunnel	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tunnel	cc
36	down	down	ADP	_	38 tunnel	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tunnel	det
38	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 field	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quivers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quiver	present	the Mole's nose						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	try back	infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:11.

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 ×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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