The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 0
The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: grip, haul up, drip · To what, where: Toad, hall
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grips | nsubj |
| 3 | grips | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grips | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 scruff | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scruff | det |
| 7 | scruff | scruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grips | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neck | det |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scruff | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hauls | cc |
| 12 | hauls | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grips | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hauls | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 hauls | compound:prt |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hall | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hauls | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dripping | punct |
| 19 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hauls | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mud | case |
| 21 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dripping | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 weed | cc |
| 23 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mud | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | present | the Rat | Toad | by the scruff of the neck | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent toad=Experiencer by scruff=Theme | |||
| 2 | haul up | present | the Rat not said here | Toad | Rat's hall | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | drip | gerund | the Rat not said here | with mud and weed | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mud=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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:0.
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): 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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