The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 12
«The Rat was a self-sufficing sort of animal, rooted to the land, and, whoever went, he stayed»; still he felt «some of its influence in his bones».
Who acts: Rat, whoever · What happens: suffice, be, root, go, stay, feel · To what, where: sufficing sort, some
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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, whoever), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 sort | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sort | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sufficing | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 8 | sufficing | suffice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sort | amod |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rooted | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animal | case |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sort | punct |
| 13 | rooted | root | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rooted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 and | punct |
| 20 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rooted | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stayed | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stayed | nsubj |
| 24 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rooted | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 rooted | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 felt | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stayed | conj |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 felt | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 influence | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 influence | nmod:poss |
| 34 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 some | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 bones | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 bones | nmod:poss |
| 37 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 influence | nmod |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffice in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the Rat | a sufficing sort | of animal | tree rules | |||
| 3 | root in a quote | past | to the land | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | whoever | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | past | Rat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | feel | past | Rat | some | still | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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.
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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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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