The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 32

There is a skittle-alley (skittles = a game like bowling), and a little pond with gold-fish, a cockle-shell border, and in its middle a little pile of more cockle-shells topped by «a large silvered glass ball that reflected everything all wrong and had a very pleasing effect».

Who acts: skittle alley, large silvered glass ball · What happens: be, top, silver, reflect, have · To what, where: more cockle shells, everything, pleasing effect

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 (skittle alley, large silvered glass ball), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 alley	det
4	skittle	skittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alley	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 skittle	punct
6	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 skittles	punct
8	skittles	skittle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 alley	conj
9	=	=	PUNCT	_	11 game	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skittles	appos
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 bowling	case
13	bowling	bowling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	nmod
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 bowling	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pond	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pond	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pond	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pond	amod
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alley	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 fish	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fish	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 gold	punct
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pond	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 border	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 border	det
26	cockle	cockle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shell	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 cockle	punct
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 border	compound
29	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pond	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pile	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pile	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 middle	nmod:poss
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pile	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pile	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pile	amod
37	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pond	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 shells	case
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 shells	amod
40	cockle	cockle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shells	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 cockle	punct
42	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pile	nmod
43	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 shells	acl
44	by	by	ADP	_	50 ball	case
45	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 ball	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 ball	det
47	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 ball	amod
48	silvered	silver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 ball	amod
49	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ball	compound
50	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 topped	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 reflected	nsubj
52	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 ball	acl:relcl
53	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	52 reflected	obj
54	all	all	ADV	_	55 wrong	advmod
55	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 reflected	xcomp
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 reflected	conj
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 effect	det
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 pleasing	advmod
60	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 effect	amod
61	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 had	obj
62	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	a skittle alley and skittles and a little pond with gold fish a shell border and a little pile of more cockle shells		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	top	participle		more cockle shells not said here		by a large silvered glass ball	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	silver in a quote	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	reflect in a quote	past	a large silvered glass ball	everything		wrong property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	a large silvered glass ball not said here	a pleasing effect			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

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:32.

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 ×2, 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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