The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 14

It's the field-mice, out carol-singing, as they do every year — and they always come to Mole End last.

Who acts: lantern, field mice, feet, out · What happens: be, sing, do, come, carol · To what, where: field mice, Mole End

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 (lantern, field mice, feet, out), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mice	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mice	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mice	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 field	punct
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carol	punct
8	out	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	9 carol	nmod:poss
9	carol	carol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mice	conj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 singing	punct
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mice	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 singing	advcl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl:unmarked
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 do	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 End	case
24	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 End	compound
25	End	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	last	last	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mice	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lantern	the field mice and out's carol			tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the field mice and out's carol not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	feet = foot		year		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	feet = foot		to Mole End	always, last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
5	carol		out				nom carol «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:14.

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): 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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