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 21
«The more he talked and boasted, the more grave and silent the Rat became.» (grave = serious)
Who acts: horse, grave Rat · What happens: talk, boast, become
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 (horse, grave 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 more | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 talked | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talked | nsubj |
| 5 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boasted | cc |
| 7 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 talked | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 grave | advmod |
| 11 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Rat | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silent | cc |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grave | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 15 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 20 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | parataxis |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 serious | punct |
| 22 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grave | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | past | horse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | boast speech: other in a quote | past | horse not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become in a quote | past | the grave Rat | tree rules |
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:21.
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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