The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 17
The Rat rows and the Mole steers, carefully, because the shadows on the water look «as solid to all appearance as the banks themselves».
Who acts: Mole, shadows · What happens: row, steer, look
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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, shadows), 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 rows | compound |
| 3 | rows | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 steers | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mole | det |
| 6 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steers | nsubj |
| 7 | steers | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rows | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carefully | punct |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 steers | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shadows | det |
| 13 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | nsubj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shadows | nmod |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 steers | advcl |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 solid | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 solid | advmod |
| 20 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 appearance | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 appearance | det |
| 23 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 solid | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 banks | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 banks | det |
| 26 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 solid | obl |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 banks | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 solid | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 steers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | present | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | steer | present | the Mole | carefully property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | present | the shadows on the water | solid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:17.
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 ×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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