The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 15

Eight or ten of them stand in a half-circle in red woolly scarves, and «one, two, three!» they begin.

Who acts: Eight, feet · What happens: stand, begin · To what, where: half circle, one

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 (Eight, feet), 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	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 stand	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 ten	cc
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eight	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eight	nmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 circle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 circle	det
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 circle	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 scarves	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scarves	amod
14	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scarves	amod
15	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begin	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begin	cc
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 begin	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 two	punct
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 three	punct
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 begin	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begin	nsubj
27	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Eight of feet			a half circle		in red woolly scarves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location
2	begin	present	feet = foot	one					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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