The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 29
The Mole moves «with something of the air of a sleep-walker», crosses a dry ditch, scrambles through a hedge, crosses a field, and dives down a tunnel.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: move, cross, scramble, dive down · To what, where: dry ditch, hedge, field, tunnel
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 (Mole), 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 | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 moves | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 walker | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 walker | det |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walker | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sleep | punct |
| 14 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crosses | punct |
| 17 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ditch | det |
| 19 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ditch | amod |
| 20 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crosses | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scrambles | punct |
| 22 | scrambles | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | conj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 hedge | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hedge | det |
| 25 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scrambles | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 crosses | punct |
| 27 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 field | det |
| 29 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crosses | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dives | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dives | cc |
| 32 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 dives | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tunnel | det |
| 35 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dives | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the Mole | with something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross | present | the Mole not said here | a dry ditch | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scramble | present | the Mole not said here | a hedge | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hedge=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cross | present | the Mole not said here | a field | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | ||||
| 5 | dive down | present | the Mole not said here | a tunnel | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:29.
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, 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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