The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 8
He has spotted a sardine-opener — so there must be sardines somewhere.
Who acts: Mole, sardines · What happens: spot, be · To what, where: sardine opener
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, sardines), 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 spotted | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spotted | aux |
| 3 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 opener | det |
| 5 | sardine | sardine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opener | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sardine | punct |
| 7 | opener | opener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spotted | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 be | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 be | expl |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spotted | conj |
| 13 | sardines | sardine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 be | nsubj |
| 14 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 be | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spotted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | present · perfect | Mole | a sardine opener | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent opener=Destination | ||||
| 2 | be | must | sardines | there | somewhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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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