The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 6
Then the Mole despairs again: there's nothing to eat, not a crumb!
Who acts: Mole, nothing · What happens: despair, be, eat
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 (Mole, nothing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 despairs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mole | det |
| 3 | Mole | mole | PROPN | _ | 4 despairs | nsubj |
| 4 | despairs | despair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 despairs | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 's | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 's | expl |
| 8 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 despairs | parataxis |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 's | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crumb | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 crumb | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crumb | det |
| 15 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | appos |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 despairs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despair | present | the Mole | then; again | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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:6.
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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