The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 0
As the Rat lies by the lane, a tired, dusty traveller comes along: another rat, lean and sharp-faced, with gold ear-rings, a faded blue jersey and his things tied up in a blue handkerchief.
Who acts: Rat, tired dusty traveller · What happens: lie, come along, fade, tie up · To what, where: things, blue handkerchief
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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, tired dusty traveller), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 lies | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 comes | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 lane | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lane | det |
| 7 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 traveller | det |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 traveller | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 12 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 traveller | amod |
| 13 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 rat | punct |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rat | det |
| 18 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 traveller | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lean | punct |
| 20 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rat | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 faced | cc |
| 22 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 faced | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sharp | punct |
| 24 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lean | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rings | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 rings | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rings | compound |
| 28 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rings | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ear | punct |
| 30 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rat | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 jersey | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 jersey | det |
| 33 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 jersey | amod |
| 34 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 jersey | amod |
| 35 | jersey | jersey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rings | appos |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 things | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 things | nmod:poss |
| 38 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 jersey | conj |
| 39 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 things | acl |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 tied | compound:prt |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 handkerchief | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 handkerchief | det |
| 43 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 handkerchief | amod |
| 44 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tied | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | 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 | lie | present | the Rat | by the lane | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lane=Location | ||||
| 2 | come along | present | a tired dusty traveller | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | tie up | participle | Rat's things not said here | a blue handkerchief | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-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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