The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 21

The Rat admires the «little sleeping-bunks in the wall» and orders: «you get a duster, Mole … and try and smarten things up a bit.

Who acts: Rat, you · What happens: admire, order, get, try, smarten up · To what, where: little sleeping bunks, wall, duster, things

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, you), 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	3 admires	nsubj
3	admires	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bunks	det
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 bunks	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bunks	amod
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bunks	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sleeping	punct
9	bunks	bunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 admires	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bunks	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 bunks	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 orders	cc
15	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 admires	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 orders	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
19	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 orders	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 duster	det
21	duster	duster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Mole	punct
23	Mole	mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 get	vocative
24	…	…	PUNCT	_	26 try	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 try	cc
26	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 get	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smarten	cc
28	smarten	smarten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 try	conj
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 smarten	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 smarten	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bit	det
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smarten	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 admires	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	admire	present	the Rat	the little sleeping bunks	the wall		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunk=Stimulus
2	order	present	the Rat not said here				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	present	you	a duster		Mole vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duster=Stimulus
4	try in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	smarten up in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	things		a bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=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:21.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-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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