The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 13
The Rat chatters «about what they would do when they got back» — «how jolly a fire of logs in the parlour would be» — «never noticing his companion's silence and distressful state of mind».
Who acts: Rat, run, fire, companion · What happens: chatter, do, get back, be, not notice, fire · To what, where: fire, parlour, silence, logs
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 (Rat, run, fire, companion), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chatters | nsubj |
| 3 | chatters | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 chatters | punct |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 chatters | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 got | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fire | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 fire | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 jolly | advmod |
| 18 | jolly | jolly | ADV | _ | 20 fire | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatters | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 logs | case |
| 22 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fire | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 parlour | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 parlour | det |
| 25 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 be | obl |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fire | acl:relcl |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 be | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 noticing | punct |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 noticing | punct |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 noticing | advmod |
| 32 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chatters | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 companion | nmod:poss |
| 34 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 silence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 companion | case |
| 36 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 noticing | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 state | cc |
| 38 | distressful | distressful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 state | amod |
| 39 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 silence | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mind | case |
| 41 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 state | nmod |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 state | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 « | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | present | the Rat | a fire of logs | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | would | run | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get back in a quote | past | run | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | would | a fire of logs not said here | the parlour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parlour=Location | ||||
| 5 | not notice in a quote | gerund | the Rat not said here | Rat's companion's silence and distressful state of mind | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer silence=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | fire in a quote | logs | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | silence in a quote | Rat's companion | nom silence «state 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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:13.
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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