The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 28
The field-mouse asked to recite «giggled shyly … and remained absolutely tongue-tied» — «nothing could overcome his stage-fright».
Who acts: field mouse, nothing, play · What happens: ask, recite, giggle, remain, tie, overcome · To what, where: stage fright · 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 (field mouse, nothing, play), 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 | 4 mouse | det |
| 2 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mouse | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 field | punct |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 recite | mark |
| 7 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 giggled | punct |
| 9 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recite | ccomp |
| 10 | shyly | shyly | ADV | _ | 9 giggled | advmod |
| 11 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 13 remained | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remained | cc |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 14 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 17 tied | advmod |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tied | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tongue | punct |
| 17 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 remained | xcomp |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 remained | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcome | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcome | punct |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 overcome | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 overcome | aux |
| 23 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fright | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fright | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 stage | punct |
| 27 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overcome | obj |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcome | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the field mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | recite not said to happen | to-infinitive | the field mouse not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | giggle in a quote | past | the field mouse not said here | shyly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain in a quote | past | the field mouse not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tie in a quote | participle | the field mouse not said here | absolutely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | overcome in a quote | could | nothing | play's stage fright | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fright=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fright in a quote | play | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:28.
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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