The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 27
From the cellar the Rat brings «a bottle of beer in each paw and another under each arm»: «Self-indulgent beggar you seem to be, Mole … Deny yourself nothing.» (Self-indulgent = treating yourself — said as a friendly joke.)
Who acts: Rat, you · What happens: bring, seem, be, deny, treat, say · To what, where: bottle, cellar, Self indulgent beggar, Mole, nothing, yourself · 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, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 cellar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cellar | det |
| 3 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rat | det |
| 5 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 bottle | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bottle | det |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beer | case |
| 11 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bottle | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 paw | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 paw | det |
| 14 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 another | cc |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 bottle | conj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 arm | det |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 another | nmod |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 seem | punct |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 seem | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 beggar | punct |
| 23 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beggar | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Self | punct |
| 25 | indulgent | indulgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beggar | amod |
| 26 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seem | obl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 seem | nsubj |
| 28 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brings | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 Mole | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 Mole | cop |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mole | punct |
| 32 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seem | xcomp |
| 33 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 Deny | punct |
| 34 | Deny | deny | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 Mole | parataxis |
| 35 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 Deny | iobj |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 Deny | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brings | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 brings | punct |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 indulgent | punct |
| 40 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 indulgent | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Self | punct |
| 42 | indulgent | indulgent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obl |
| 43 | = | = | SYM | _ | 44 treating | punct |
| 44 | treating | treat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 brings | advcl |
| 45 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 treating | obj |
| 46 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 treating | conj |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 joke | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 joke | det |
| 50 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 joke | amod |
| 51 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 said | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brings | punct |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the Rat | a bottle of beer | the cellar | in each paw; Self indulgent obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme from cellar=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | you | Self indulgent beggar | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Mole | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deny in a quote | infinitive | nothing | yourself | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | treat | gerund | the Rat not said here | yourself | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Rat not said here | as a friendly joke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:27.
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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