The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 1
Why did he drag poor Ratty here, when he could be toasting his toes at home?
Who acts: Mole · What happens: drag, toast · To what, where: poor Ratty, toes, home
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 drag | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drag | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drag | nsubj |
| 4 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ratty | amod |
| 6 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drag | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drag | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 toasting | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 toasting | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 toasting | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 toasting | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 toasting | aux |
| 13 | toasting | toast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 drag | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 toes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 toasting | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toasting | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drag | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · do-support | Mole | poor Ratty | here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratty=Theme | |||
| 2 | toast | could · progressive | Mole | Mole's toes | home | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toe=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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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