The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 18
«We might have just gone and had one look at it, Ratty—only one look—it was close by—but you wouldn't turn back, Ratty, you wouldn't turn back!»
Who acts: We, sob, you · What happens: go, have, be, not turn back · To what, where: one look, 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 (We, sob, you), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gone | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 close | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gone | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 look | nummod |
| 10 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ratty | punct |
| 14 | Ratty | ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 look | appos |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 look | nummod |
| 18 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Ratty | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 close | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 close | cop |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 — | case |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 turn | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 turn | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 turn | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 turn | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 turn | advmod |
| 29 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 close | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 turn | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ratty | punct |
| 32 | Ratty | ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 turn | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 turn | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 turn | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 turn | aux |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 turn | advmod |
| 37 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 close | conj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 turn | advmod |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 close | punct |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | might · perfect | We | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | participle | We not said here | one look | sob | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | sob | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not turn back in a quote | would | you | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not turn back in a quote | would | you | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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:18.
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 ×3, 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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