The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 12
The Rat is starving, but he nods and says «wonderful» — he knows what his friend needs.
Who acts: Rat, friend · What happens: starve, nod, say, know, need · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rat, friend), 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 | 4 starving | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starving | aux |
| 4 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nods | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 nods | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nods | nsubj |
| 8 | nods | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starving | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 says | cc |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nods | conj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 wonderful | punct |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 says | ccomp |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 wonderful | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starving | parataxis |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 needs | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 needs | nsubj |
| 20 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starving | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | present · progressive | the Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nod | present | Rat | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Rat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | Rat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | need | present | Rat's friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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