The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 21

The «tactful Mole» brought a pencil and paper: «It's quite a long time since you did any poetry»; later the Rat was «scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil», and «it was joy to the Mole to know that the cure had at least begun».

Who acts: tactful Mole, paper, you, Rat, cure · What happens: bring, be, do, scribble, suck, know · To what, where: pencil, long time, poetry, top, joy · 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 (tactful Mole, paper, you, Rat), 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	4 Mole	det
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Mole	punct
3	tactful	tactful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Mole	amod
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Mole	punct
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pencil	det
8	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 paper	cc
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pencil	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
13	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 time	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 time	cop
15	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	parataxis
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 poetry	det
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 later	punct
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 scribbling	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Rat	det
28	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 scribbling	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 scribbling	aux
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 scribbling	punct
31	scribbling	scribble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 brought	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sucking	cc
33	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 scribbling	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sucking	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 pencil	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 pencil	nmod:poss
38	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 top	nmod
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 scribbling	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 joy	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 joy	cc
42	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 joy	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 joy	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 joy	cop
45	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sucking	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 Mole	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Mole	det
48	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 joy	nmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 know	mark
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 Mole	acl
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 begun	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 cure	det
53	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 begun	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 begun	aux
55	at	at	ADV	_	56 least	fixed
56	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	57 begun	advmod
57	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 know	ccomp
58	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 joy	punct
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the tactful Mole	a pencil and paper		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	paper	quite long time		tree rules
3	do in a quote	past	you	any poetry		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Eventuality
4	scribble in a quote	past · progressive	the Rat		late property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	suck in a quote	gerund	the Rat not said here	the top of Mole's pencil		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source
6	is a in a quote	past	paper	joy	to the Mole	tree rules
7	know in a quote	to-infinitive	paper not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	begin in a quote	past · perfect	the cure		least property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 ×6, R8-pos-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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