The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 1
He sits down beside the Water Rat, and the two rest in friendly silence.
Who acts: traveller, two · What happens: sit down, rest · To what, where: Water Rat, friendly silence
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 (traveller, two), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sits | compound:prt |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 Rat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rat | det |
| 6 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rat | compound |
| 7 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rest | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rest | nsubj |
| 12 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silence | case |
| 14 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 silence | amod |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | present | traveller | the Water Rat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside rat=Location | ||||
| 2 | rest | present | the two | friendly silence | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |
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:1.
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): no change. 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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