The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 9
They hunt and find sardines, biscuits and a sausage.
Who acts: sardines · What happens: hunt, find · To what, where: sardines
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 find | cc |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunt | conj |
| 5 | sardines | sardine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 biscuits | punct |
| 7 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sardines | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sausage | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sausage | det |
| 10 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sardines | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | sardines = sardine | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | present | sardines = sardine not said here | sardines and biscuits and a sausage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sardine=Topic |
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:9.
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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