The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 13

Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet and tiny voices outside: «Now, all in a line — hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy».

Who acts: Rat, feet, line · What happens: get, be, scuffle, hold up · To what, where: sardine tin, line, lantern

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, feet, line), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 gets	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 gets	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tin	det
7	sardine	sardine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tin	compound
8	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 are	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
13	scuffling	scuffle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 feet	acl
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 are	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 voices	cc
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voices	amod
17	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feet	conj
18	outside	outside	ADV	_	12 are	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
21	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gets	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 line	punct
23	all	all	ADV	_	26 line	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obl
27	—	—	PUNCT	_	26 line	punct
28	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 line	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lantern	det
30	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	28 hold	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Tommy	punct
35	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hold	vocative
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the Rat	the sardine tin	a line	now	open property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tin=Stimulus
2	does	present	feet and tiny voices		there		outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scuffle	gerund	feet and tiny voices not said here					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold up in a quote	infinitive	a line not said here	the lantern			a bit obl:unmarked; Tommy vocative	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lantern=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:13.

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, 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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