The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 0
The Sea Rat goes on with his voyage: down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily, then on to Sardinia and Corsica; he never sticks too long to one ship.
Who acts: Sea Rat, Rat · What happens: go on, not stick, voyage
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (Sea Rat, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | compound |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 voyage | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 coast | punct |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 coast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coast | det |
| 12 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voyage | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Italy | case |
| 14 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coast | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Palermo | case |
| 16 | Palermo | Palermo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coast | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weeks | cc |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeks | amod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Palermo | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 weeks | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Sicily | case |
| 23 | Sicily | Sicily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 friends | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Sardinia | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 Sardinia | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Sardinia | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Sardinia | case |
| 28 | Sardinia | Sardinia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 friends | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Corsica | cc |
| 30 | Corsica | Corsica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sardinia | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 sticks | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sticks | nsubj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 sticks | advmod |
| 34 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 long | advmod |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 sticks | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 ship | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 ship | nummod |
| 39 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sticks | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present | the Sea Rat | with Rat's voyage down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stick | present | Rat | to one ship; long property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to ship=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | voyage | Rat | down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent down=obl |
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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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