The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 1
When the Water Rat asks whether it isn't hot down in the ship's hold, the Sea Rat winks: «The captain's cabin's good enough for me» — he rides along as a guest, not as a hard-working sailor.
Who acts: Water Rat, ship, Sea Rat, Rat · What happens: ask, not be, wink, ride along, work, hold · To what, where: ship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Water Rat, ship, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 asks | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 3 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rat | compound |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 winks | advcl |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 hot | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hot | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hot | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hot | advmod |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asks | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 hot | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hold | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 down | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asks | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rat | det |
| 19 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Rat | compound |
| 20 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 winks | nsubj |
| 21 | winks | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 captain | det |
| 25 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 captain | case |
| 27 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 good | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 cabin | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 winks | conj |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 good | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 good | obl |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 rides | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rides | nsubj |
| 36 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 winks | parataxis |
| 37 | along | along | ADV | _ | 36 rides | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 guest | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 guest | det |
| 40 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rides | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sailor | punct |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 sailor | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 sailor | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 sailor | det |
| 45 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 working | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 hard | punct |
| 47 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 sailor | amod |
| 48 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 guest | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 winks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Water Rat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | ship | down, hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wink | present | the Sea Rat | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride along | present | Rat | as a guest and a working sailor; along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | hold | the ship | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.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): R7-rel-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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