The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 15
Rat and Mole were «painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat-hooks» for «the opening of the boating season».
Who acts: Rat · What happens: painting, varnish, mend, repair, hunt · To what, where: paddles, cushions
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), 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 painting | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Mole | cc |
| 3 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rat | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 painting | aux |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 painting | punct |
| 6 | painting | painting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 varnishing | cc |
| 8 | varnishing | varnish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 painting | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mending | punct |
| 10 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 painting | conj |
| 11 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mending | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 repairing | punct |
| 13 | repairing | repair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 painting | conj |
| 14 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 repairing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunting | punct |
| 16 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 varnishing | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hooks | case |
| 18 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hooks | amod |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hooks | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 boat | punct |
| 21 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hunting | obl |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 hooks | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 opening | case |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 opening | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 opening | det |
| 26 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunting | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 season | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 season | det |
| 29 | boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 season | compound |
| 30 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 opening | nmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 opening | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | painting in a quote | past · progressive | Rat and Mole | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | varnish in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mend in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | paddles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repair in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | cushions | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hunt in a quote | gerund | Rat and Mole not said here | for missing boat hooks; for the opening of the boating season | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for hook=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:15.
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 ×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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