The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 16
The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to bring it outside: «I am none too fond of going under hatches» (indoors, below deck), and indoors «it is a hundred to one that I shall presently fall asleep».
Who acts: polite Water Rat, Sea Rat, crew, lunch, hundred one · What happens: invite, ask, bring, be, go, fall · To what, where: crew, lunch, hatches · 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 (polite Water Rat, Sea Rat, crew, lunch), 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 | 5 Rat | det |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rat | punct |
| 3 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rat | amod |
| 4 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rat | compound |
| 5 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 invites | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rat | punct |
| 7 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 invites | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lunch | case |
| 10 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invites | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 asks | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rat | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rat | compound |
| 14 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asks | nsubj |
| 15 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 invites | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asks | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asks | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 fond | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 fond | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fond | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fond | cop |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 27 fond | compound |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 fond | advmod |
| 27 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 invites | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 going | mark |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 fond | advcl |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 hatches | case |
| 31 | hatches | hatch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 going | obl |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 fond | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 indoors | punct |
| 34 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 37 deck | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 indoors | punct |
| 36 | below | below | ADP | _ | 37 deck | case |
| 37 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invites | parataxis |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 deck | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 fall | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 fall | cc |
| 41 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 48 one | advmod |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 48 one | punct |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 one | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 one | cop |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 hundred | det |
| 46 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 one | compound |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 one | case |
| 48 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 fall | nsubj |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 fall | mark |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 fall | nsubj |
| 51 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 fall | aux |
| 52 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 53 fall | advmod |
| 53 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 invites | conj |
| 54 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 fall | xcomp |
| 55 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 53 fall | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invites | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | present | the polite Water Rat | crew | to lunch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the Sea Rat | crew | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sea Rat not said here | lunch | outside property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the crew = crew | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | gerund | the crew = crew not said here | hatches | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under hatch=Location | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | lunch | to hundred one; indoors property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall in a quote | shall | hundred one | asleep, presently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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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 ×4. 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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