The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 3

They tell him to stop standing about idle and help; he invites them for a row or a picnic, and they say «perhaps some other day»; he trips over a hat-box, falls, and is told off for not looking where he is going.

Who acts: mice, Rat · What happens: tell, stop, stand, invite, say, trip · To what, where: Rat, mice, hat box · 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 (mice, Rat), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	xcomp
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 idle	case
8	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 standing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idle	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 invites	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invites	nsubj
13	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invites	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 row	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 row	det
17	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 invites	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 picnic	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 picnic	det
20	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 row	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 day	punct
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 day	advmod
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 day	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	ccomp
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 day	punct
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 trips	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 trips	nsubj
33	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	parataxis
34	over	over	ADP	_	38 box	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 box	det
36	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 box	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 hat	punct
38	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trips	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 falls	punct
40	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 trips	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 told	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 told	cc
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 told	aux:pass
44	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 trips	conj
45	off	off	ADP	_	44 told	compound:prt
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 looking	mark
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 looking	advmod
48	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 told	advcl
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 going	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 going	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 going	aux
52	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 looking	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	mice = mouse		Rat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	mice = mouse not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	stand	gerund	mice = mouse not said here				about idle and help	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about idle=Location
4	invite	present	Rat	mice = mouse			for a row or a picnic	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	present	mice = mouse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	trip	present	Rat			a hat box		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over box=Trajectory
7	fall	present	Rat not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell off speech: assert	present · passive	Rat not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
9	not look	gerund	Rat not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	go	present · progressive	Rat					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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