The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 17
Come and bear a hand, Rat, and don't stand about idle!» (bear a hand = help).
Who acts: you · What happens: come, bear, not stand · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bear | cc |
| 3 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rat | punct |
| 7 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stand | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stand | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stand | advmod |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 idle | case |
| 14 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stand | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 stand | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bear | obj |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 help | case |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | Rat vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | you not said here | a hand | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not stand | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | about idle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about idle=Location | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | infinitive | a hand | = help | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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 ×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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