The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 1
Standing up, the Sea Rat tells of the little grey harbour town where he will wait for the right ship, pointing South, and then softly invites him: «And you, you will come too, young brother» — just bang the door behind you and step out.
Who acts: Sea Rat, Rat, you · What happens: stand up, tell, wait, point, invite, come · To what, where: Rat, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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, you), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tells | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Standing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tells | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rat | compound |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tells | nsubj |
| 7 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 12 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | compound |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tells | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wait | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wait | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wait | aux |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 town | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ship | amod |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wait | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pointing | punct |
| 23 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 wait | advcl |
| 24 | South | south | ADV | _ | 23 pointing | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 invites | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 invites | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 invites | advmod |
| 28 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 29 invites | advmod |
| 29 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pointing | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 invites | obj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 come | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 come | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 you | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 come | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | aux |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pointing | conj |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 come | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brother | punct |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 brother | amod |
| 42 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 come | vocative |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 44 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 bang | punct |
| 45 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 bang | advmod |
| 46 | bang | bang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | parataxis |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 door | det |
| 48 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bang | obj |
| 49 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 50 you | case |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 bang | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 step | cc |
| 52 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 46 bang | conj |
| 53 | out | out | ADP | _ | 52 step | compound:prt |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | gerund | the Sea Rat not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the Sea Rat | of the little grey harbour town | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | future | Rat | for the right ship | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | point | gerund | Rat not said here | south property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | invite | present | Rat not said here | Rat | then | softly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 6 | come in a quote | future | you | young brother vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bang | infinitive | the door | behind you | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme behind you=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | step out | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «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.
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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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