The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 30
«The Rat said little or nothing, only taking care that each guest had what he wanted, and plenty of it, and that Mole had no trouble or anxiety about anything.»
Who acts: Rat, guest, Mole · What happens: say, take, have, want · To what, where: little, care, trouble · 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, guest, Mole), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nothing | cc |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 little | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 taking | advmod |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 said | advcl |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 guest | det |
| 14 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plenty | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plenty | cc |
| 21 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plenty | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 had | mark |
| 27 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 trouble | det |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 anxiety | cc |
| 32 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trouble | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 anything | case |
| 34 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 anxiety | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Rat | little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | the Rat not said here | care | plenty of plenty obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | each guest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | past | Rat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | Mole | no trouble or anxiety about anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=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:30.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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