The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 20
The Rat suggests a row, a stroll or a picnic; the field-mouse answers: «Well, I think not to-day, thank you ...
Who acts: Rat, I · What happens: suggest, answer, think, thank · To what, where: row, you · 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 (Rat, I), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggests | nsubj |
| 3 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 row | det |
| 5 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggests | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stroll | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stroll | det |
| 8 | stroll | stroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 row | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 picnic | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 picnic | det |
| 11 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stroll | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 answers | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 answers | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 field | punct |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answers | compound |
| 17 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suggests | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 answers | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 20 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 23 think | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Well | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 answers | parataxis |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 day | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 think | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thank | punct |
| 29 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 thank | obj |
| 31 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=other, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | the Rat | a row and a stroll or a picnic | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent row=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:20.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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