The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 3
The Mole sees that his friend's eyes have turned a streaked, shifting grey — «not his friend's eyes» — and drags him inside and holds him down; the Rat struggles, then shivers, sobs and falls asleep, while the Mole locks the satchel away.
Who acts: Mole, eyes, Rat · What happens: see, turn, streak, shift, drag, hold down · To what, where: streaked shifting grey, Mole, satchel · 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 (Mole, eyes, 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 | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 sees | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grey | det |
| 12 | streaked | streak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 grey | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shifting | punct |
| 14 | shifting | shift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 grey | amod |
| 15 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grey | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 eyes | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grey | appos |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 » | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drags | cc |
| 26 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sees | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drags | obj |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 26 drags | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 holds | cc |
| 30 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 drags | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 holds | obj |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 holds | compound:prt |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 struggles | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Rat | det |
| 35 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 struggles | nsubj |
| 36 | struggles | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sees | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shivers | punct |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 shivers | advmod |
| 39 | shivers | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 struggles | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sobs | punct |
| 41 | sobs | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 struggles | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 falls | cc |
| 43 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 struggles | conj |
| 44 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 falls | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 locks | punct |
| 46 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 49 locks | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Mole | det |
| 48 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 locks | nsubj |
| 49 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 falls | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 satchel | det |
| 51 | satchel | satchel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 locks | obj |
| 52 | away | away | ADV | _ | 49 locks | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the Mole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | turn | present · perfect | Mole's friend's eyes | a streaked shifting grey | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | streak | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | shift | gerund | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | drag | present | the Mole not said here | Mole | inside property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | hold down | present | the Mole not said here | Mole | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | struggle | present | the Rat | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | shiver | present | the Rat not said here | then | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | sob | present | the Rat not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | fall | present | the Rat not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 11 | lock away | present | the Mole | the satchel | away property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satchel=Patient |
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×8, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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