The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 2
The Rat wanders into a field of tall wheat to visit his small friends there, but the field-mice and harvest-mice are all busy digging, packing trunks and studying plans of new little flats for the winter.
Who acts: Rat, field mice · What happens: wander, visit, be, dig, pack, study · To what, where: field, small friends, trunks, plans, new little flats
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, field mice), 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 wanders | nsubj |
| 3 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanders | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wheat | case |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wheat | amod |
| 9 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 field | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanders | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friends | amod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 visit | obj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 visit | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mice | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 mice | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mice | det |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mice | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 field | punct |
| 21 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 busy | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mice | cc |
| 23 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mice | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 harvest | punct |
| 25 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mice | conj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 busy | cop |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 busy | advmod |
| 28 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wanders | conj |
| 29 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 busy | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 packing | punct |
| 31 | packing | pack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 digging | conj |
| 32 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 packing | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 studying | cc |
| 34 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 digging | conj |
| 35 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 studying | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 flats | case |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 flats | amod |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 flats | amod |
| 39 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 plans | nmod |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 winter | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 winter | det |
| 42 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 studying | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanders | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | present | the Rat | a field of tall wheat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | Rat's small friends | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | the field mice and harvest mice | all, busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pack | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice not said here | trunks | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Destination | ||||
| 6 | study | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice not said here | plans of new little flats | winter | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic | |||
| 7 | plan | new little flats | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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:2.
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, R6-punct-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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