The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 23

He waits till «sniffs were frequent and sobs only intermittent» (intermittent = coming now and then), then says «carelessly» that they'd better be getting on, and sets off the way they came.

Who acts: pig, sniffs, sobs · What happens: wait, be, come, say, get on, set off · To what, where: way · 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 (pig, sniffs, sobs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 frequent	mark
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 frequent	punct
5	sniffs	sniff	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 frequent	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frequent	cop
7	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waits	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 intermittent	cc
9	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 intermittent	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 intermittent	advmod
11	intermittent	intermittent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frequent	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 intermittent	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 intermittent	punct
14	intermittent	intermittent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waits	parataxis
15	=	=	SYM	_	14 intermittent	dep
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 intermittent	parataxis
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 coming	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 then	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 now	conj
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 intermittent	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 says	advmod
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 waits	conj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 carelessly	punct
25	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	23 says	advmod
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 carelessly	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 getting	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 getting	nsubj
29	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 getting	aux
30	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 getting	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 getting	aux
32	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 says	ccomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 getting	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sets	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sets	cc
36	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 says	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 sets	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sets	obj
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 way	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	pig				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	sniffs			frequent property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		sobs				tree rules
4	come	gerund			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	pig not said here		then	carelessly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get on	would · progressive	sniffs = sniff			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	set off	present	pig not said here	the way			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition way=Patient
8	come	past	sniffs = sniff	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

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:23.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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