The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 26
The Mole: «It's too late, and too dark, and the place is too far off, and the snow's coming!» The Rat: «Hang River Bank, and supper too! … I'm going to find this place now, if I stay out all night.»
Who acts: nose, place, snow, hiccups · What happens: be, come, hang, go, find, stay out · To what, where: River Bank, place
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 (nose, place, snow, hiccups), 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 | _ | 8 late | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 late | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 late | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 late | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 late | advmod |
| 8 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mole | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dark | cc |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 late | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 off | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 coming | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 far | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 far | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 late | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 coming | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 coming | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 snow | det |
| 24 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coming | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 coming | aux |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 late | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 late | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 late | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Rat | det |
| 30 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | parataxis |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hang | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hang | punct |
| 33 | Hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Mole | conj |
| 34 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Bank | compound |
| 35 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Hang | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 supper | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 supper | cc |
| 38 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Bank | conj |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 supper | advmod |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 41 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 44 going | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 going | nsubj |
| 43 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 going | aux |
| 44 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Mole | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 find | mark |
| 46 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 going | xcomp |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 place | det |
| 48 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 find | obj |
| 49 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 find | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 stay | punct |
| 51 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 53 stay | mark |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 stay | nsubj |
| 53 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mole | conj |
| 54 | out | out | ADV | _ | 53 stay | advmod |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 night | det |
| 56 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 58 | » | » | 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 | is in a quote | present | nose | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | nose not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the place | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hang in a quote | infinitive | River Bank and supper | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the hiccups = hiccup | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the hiccups = hiccup not said here | this place | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 8 | stay out in a quote | present | the hiccups = hiccup | night | out property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:26.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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