The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 16
«Mechanically» (like a machine, without thinking) the Rat repacked the basket, went home, put «a few small necessaries and special treasures» in a satchel, chose «a stout stick for his wayfaring», and stepped out «just as the Mole appeared at the door».
Who acts: Rat, Mole · What happens: think, repack, go, put, choose, step out · To what, where: basket, few small necessaries, satchel, stout stick, 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 (Rat, Mole), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 repacked | punct |
| 2 | Mechanically | mechanically | ADV | _ | 14 repacked | advmod |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mechanically | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 machine | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 machine | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 machine | det |
| 7 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mechanically | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 thinking | mark |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 machine | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 machine | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 repacked | nsubj |
| 14 | repacked | repack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repacked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 repacked | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | parataxis |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 necessaries | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 necessaries | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 necessaries | amod |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 necessaries | amod |
| 26 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 treasures | cc |
| 28 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasures | amod |
| 29 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 necessaries | conj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 necessaries | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 satchel | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 satchel | det |
| 33 | satchel | satchel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 chose | punct |
| 35 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | conj |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 stick | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 stick | det |
| 38 | stout | stout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stick | compound |
| 39 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chose | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 wayfaring | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wayfaring | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wayfaring | wayfaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stick | nmod |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 stick | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 stepped | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 stepped | cc |
| 46 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 chose | conj |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 stepped | compound:prt |
| 48 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 53 appeared | punct |
| 49 | just | just | ADV | _ | 53 appeared | advmod |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 appeared | mark |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Mole | det |
| 52 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 appeared | nsubj |
| 53 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 stepped | advcl |
| 54 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 door | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 door | det |
| 56 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 appeared | obl |
| 57 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 53 appeared | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 repacked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Rat not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | repack | past | the Rat | the basket | mechanically property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | the Rat not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | a few small necessaries and special treasures | a satchel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent necessary=Theme in satchel=Destination | ||||
| 5 | choose | past | a stout stick | for Rat's wayfaring | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for wayfaring=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | step out | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | appear in a quote | past | the Mole | the door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
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:16.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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