The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 18
Any port is home to him: «Set me down on any of their quays or foreshores, and I am home again» (a quay is a stone landing-place for ships).
Who acts: Water Rat, quay · What happens: be, set down · To what, where: Water Rat, any, stone landing
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 (Water Rat, quay), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 port | det |
| 2 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 him | cop |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 him | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 port | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Set | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 Set | punct |
| 9 | Set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 port | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Set | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 Set | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 any | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 Set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 quays | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 quays | nmod:poss |
| 16 | quays | quay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 foreshores | cc |
| 18 | foreshores | foreshore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 quays | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 again | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 again | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 again | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 again | cop |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 again | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 Set | advmod |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 again | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 landing | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 quay | det |
| 28 | quay | quay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 landing | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 landing | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 landing | det |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 landing | compound |
| 32 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 » | appos |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 place | punct |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 landing | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 ships | case |
| 36 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 place | nmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 place | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 port | 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 | is | present | to visit; home property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set down in a quote | infinitive | the Water Rat = rat | any | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on any=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Water Rat = rat | again, home property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a quay | a stone landing and place for ships | tree rules |
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:18.
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, 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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