The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 3
The Rat says nothing for a while, just pats his shoulder.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: say, pat · To what, where: nothing, shoulder · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 says | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pats | punct |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 pats | advmod |
| 10 | pats | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pats | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Rat | nothing | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | pat | present | Rat's shoulder | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Experiencer |
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:3.
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 ×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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