The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 7

The Rat warms up some ale with spices, as people did in those days, and the field-mice sip and cough and laugh.

Who acts: Rat, field mice · What happens: warm up, sip, cough, laugh · To what, where: ale

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, field 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 warms	nsubj
3	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 warms	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 ale	det
6	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warms	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 spices	case
8	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ale	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 days	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	15 days	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 days	aux
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 days	det
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ale	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sip	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sip	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mice	det
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mice	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 field	punct
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sip	nsubj
22	sip	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warms	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cough	cc
24	cough	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sip	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laugh	cc
26	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sip	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warms	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	the Rat	some ale	with spices	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ale=Patient with spice=Instrument
2	sip	present	the field mice			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cough	present	the field mice not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	present	the field mice not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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