The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 14
Something small and bright twinkles inside it, and a face grows round it: brown and small, with whiskers.
Who acts: Something, face · What happens: twinkle, grow · To what, where: current
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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 (Something, face), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 twinkles | nsubj |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bright | cc |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 small | conj |
| 5 | twinkles | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 twinkles | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grows | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grows | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grows | nsubj |
| 12 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 twinkles | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grows | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 brown | punct |
| 16 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grows | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 small | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brown | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whiskers | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 whiskers | case |
| 21 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 twinkles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | present | Something | current | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside it=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a face | round current | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:14.
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 ×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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