The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 2
The voice fades, the stranger becomes a speck on the road, and the Rat, like a sleep-walker, packs a satchel, takes a stick and steps out of his door — just as the Mole arrives.
Who acts: voice, stranger, Rat, Mole · What happens: fade, become, pack, take, step out, arrive · To what, where: speck, satchel, stick, door
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 (voice, stranger, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fades | nsubj |
| 3 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 packs | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 becomes | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stranger | det |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 becomes | nsubj |
| 7 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fades | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 speck | det |
| 9 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 becomes | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speck | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Rat | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rat | det |
| 16 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 packs | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walker | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 walker | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 walker | det |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walker | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleep | punct |
| 22 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 packs | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walker | punct |
| 24 | packs | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 satchel | det |
| 26 | satchel | satchel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 packs | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 takes | punct |
| 28 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 packs | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 stick | det |
| 30 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 takes | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 steps | cc |
| 32 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 takes | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 door | nmod:poss |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 steps | obl |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 arrives | punct |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 42 arrives | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 arrives | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Mole | det |
| 41 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 arrives | nsubj |
| 42 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 steps | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fades | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | present | the voice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | become | present | the stranger | a speck on the road | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pack | present | the Rat | a satchel | like a sleep walker | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent satchel=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | present | the Rat not said here | a stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 5 | step out | present | the Rat not said here | Rat's door | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arrive | present | the Mole | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
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:2.
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. 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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