The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 3
He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital little house this is!
Who acts: Rat · What happens: run about, light, be · To what, where: lamps, capital little house · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 running | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 running | aux |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 running | advmod |
| 5 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 running | xcomp |
| 6 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lighting | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 candles | cc |
| 8 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lamps | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 11 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 house | det |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 13 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 running | parataxis |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 is | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 house | cop |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | present · progressive | Rat | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light | gerund | Rat not said here | lamps and candles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | what capital little house | tree rules |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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