The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 8
The Water Rat asks if it is «very hot and stuffy, down in the — hold» (the hold is the inside of a ship where the cargo goes).
Who acts: Water Rat, ship, hold, cargo · What happens: ask, be, go · To what, where: inside · 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, hold, cargo), 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 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | compound |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 hot | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hot | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hot | cop |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 hot | advmod |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stuffy | cc |
| 12 | stuffy | stuffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hot | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 down | punct |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hold | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hold | det |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 18 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 down | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 inside | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hold | det |
| 22 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inside | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 inside | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 inside | det |
| 25 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ship | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 ship | det |
| 28 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inside | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 goes | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cargo | det |
| 31 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | nsubj |
| 32 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ship | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 inside | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | 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 how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ship | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | ship not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hold | the inside | of a ship | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go | present | the cargo | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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): R6-punct-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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