The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 17
The Mole: «I know it's a—shabby, dingy little place … not like—your cosy quarters—or Toad's beautiful hall—or Badger's great house—but it was my own little home—and I was fond of it».
Who acts: Hang River Bank, sob, shabby dingy little place · What happens: know, be, not like · To what, where: shabby dingy little place, cosy quarters, own little home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hang River Bank, sob, shabby dingy little place), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mole | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 place | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 11 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shabby | punct |
| 13 | dingy | dingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | ccomp |
| 16 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 quarters | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 quarters | amod |
| 22 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 like | obj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 hall | cc |
| 25 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 hall | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Toad | case |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hall | amod |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | conj |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 house | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 house | cc |
| 31 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 house | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Badger | case |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hall | conj |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 home | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 home | cc |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 home | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 home | cop |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 home | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 home | amod |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 home | amod |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | conj |
| 43 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 fond | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 fond | cc |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 fond | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 fond | cop |
| 47 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 home | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 it | case |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fond | obl |
| 50 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Hang River Bank and supper = bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | sob | a shabby dingy little place or Toad's beautiful hall or Badger's great house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not like in a quote | infinitive | a shabby dingy little place or Toad's beautiful hall or Badger's great house not said here | your cosy quarters | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | sob | my own little home | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | Hang River Bank and supper = bank | of sob; fond property | tree rules |
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:17.
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 ×1, 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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