The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 2
Between sobs it all comes out: his shabby little home, how he forgot it, how he smelt it on the road, how the Rat wouldn't turn back.
Who acts: sob, Mole, Rat · What happens: come out, forget, smelt, not turn back · To what, where: sob, road
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 (sob, Mole, Rat), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 sobs | case |
| 2 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comes | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 it | det |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 comes | compound:prt |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 home | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgot | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 forgot | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forgot | nsubj |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forgot | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smelt | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 smelt | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | nsubj |
| 20 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgot | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smelt | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turn | punct |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 turn | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Rat | det |
| 28 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 turn | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 turn | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 turn | advmod |
| 31 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 smelt | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 turn | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | sob | between sobs | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Mole | sob | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smelt | past | Mole | sob | the road | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not turn back | would | the Rat | 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:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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