The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 8

The Mole asks one of them to recite from last year's play, but the poor mouse is struck dumb with stage-fright.

Who acts: Mole, one, last year · What happens: ask, recite, strike, play · To what, where: one, play, poor mouse

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, one, last year), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 asks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 recite	mark
8	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 play	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 year	case
13	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recite	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mouse	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mouse	amod
18	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 struck	aux:pass
20	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 asks	conj
21	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 struck	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 fright	case
23	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fright	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 stage	punct
25	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Mole	one of mice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	recite not said to happen	to-infinitive	one of mice not said here		last year's play		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike	present · passive		the poor mouse		with stage fright; dumb property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fright=Instrument
4	play		last year				nom play «communication intransitive»: 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:8.

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, 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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