The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 25

The Rat finds the beer is «Old Burton»: «Now we shall be able to mull some ale!» (Mulled ale = beer warmed with spices.) The mice sip «and coughing and choking (for a little mulled ale goes a long way)».

Who acts: Rat, beer, we, mice, little mulled ale · What happens: find, be, mull, warm, sip, cough · To what, where: Burton », ale, Mulled ale, long way · 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 (Rat, beer, we, mice), 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 Rat	det
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beer	det
5	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 »	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 »	cop
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 »	punct
8	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Burton	amod
9	Burton	Burton	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 »	compound
10	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	ccomp
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
13	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 able	advmod
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finds	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 mull	mark
19	mull	mull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 ale	det
21	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mull	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 ale	punct
25	Mulled	mull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 ale	amod
26	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	parataxis
27	=	=	SYM	_	29 warmed	punct
28	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warmed	nsubj
29	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 ale	acl:relcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 spices	case
31	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 warmed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mice	det
35	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sip	nsubj
36	sip	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 sip	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 coughing	cc
39	coughing	cough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 sip	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 choking	cc
41	choking	choke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 coughing	conj
42	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 goes	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 goes	mark
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 ale	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ale	amod
46	mulled	mull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 ale	amod
47	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 goes	nsubj
48	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 way	det
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 way	amod
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 goes	obj
52	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 goes	punct
53	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	the Rat				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the beer	Burton »			tree rules
3	is in a quote	shall	we		now	able property	tree rules
4	mull in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	some ale			tree rules
5	mull	participle					tree rules
6	warm	participle	beer	Mulled ale not said here		with spices	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ale=Patient with spice=Instrument
7	sip	present	the mice				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cough in a quote	gerund	the mice not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	choke in a quote	gerund	the mice not said here				vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
10	mull in a quote	participle					tree rules
11	go in a quote	present	a little mulled ale	a long way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:25.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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