The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 1

Rat and Mole have been up since dawn getting the boats ready — painting, varnishing, mending — when there is a heavy knock.

Who acts: Rat, heavy knock · What happens: be, get, varnish, mend · To what, where: boats

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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, heavy knock), 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	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 up	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Mole	cc
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rat	conj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 up	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 up	cop
6	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	obl
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 up	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boats	det
11	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 getting	obj
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 getting	xcomp
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 painting	punct
14	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 varnishing	punct
16	varnishing	varnish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 painting	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mending	punct
18	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 painting	conj
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 is	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 up	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knock	det
24	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knock	amod
25	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	Rat and Mole			dawn	up property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	Rat and Mole not said here	the boats			ready property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent boat=Beneficiary painting=Theme
3	varnish	gerund	Rat and Mole not said here					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	mend	gerund	Rat and Mole not said here					tree rules
5	be	present	a heavy knock		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-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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