The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 4

Grumpy and a bit lonely, the Rat goes back to his faithful old river, which never packs up, moves house or goes away for the winter.

Who acts: Rat, faithful old river · What happens: go back, not pack up, move, go away · To what, where: house

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, faithful old river), 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	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goes	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lonely	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lonely	obl:unmarked
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grumpy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 goes	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 river	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 river	nmod:poss
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 packs	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 packs	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 packs	advmod
19	packs	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 river	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 packs	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moves	punct
22	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 packs	conj
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moves	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 goes	cc
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 packs	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 goes	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 winter	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 winter	det
29	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 goes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	the Rat			to Rat's faithful old river result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result
2	not pack up	present	Rat's faithful old river				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	move	present	Rat's faithful old river not said here	house			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	go away	present	Rat's faithful old river not said here		winter	away property	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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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.

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