The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 30

Voices outside: «Now, all in a line—hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy—clear your throats first—no coughing after I say one, two, three.—Where's young Bill?»

Who acts: line, I · What happens: hold up, clear, cough, say, be · To what, where: lantern, throats, one, young Bill · 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 (line, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

yes/no question

act

request

voice

character

polarity

none

indirect

yes

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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