The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 24
The Mole makes «each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young … to go out a-carolling this year».
Who acts: Mole, each, numerous brothers · What happens: make, recite, be, go out, carol, name · To what, where: names, a, numerous brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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, each, numerous brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 recite | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 recite | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 each | nmod |
| 8 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 names | det |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 recite | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | amod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 names | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 young | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 young | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 young | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 young | advmod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 young | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 go | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 a | punct |
| 26 | carolling | carol | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 a | advcl |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the Mole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recite in a quote | infinitive | each | the names of Mole's numerous brothers | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Mole's numerous brothers | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out in a quote | to-infinitive | Mole's numerous brothers not said here | a | year | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | carol speech: other in a quote | gerund | Mole's numerous brothers not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | name in a quote | Mole's numerous brothers | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:24.
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): R5-strong ×1. 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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