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 29
Awful fun!» and makes stifled noises «k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p», like snorts or soda-water bottles opening.
Who acts: i, snorts · What happens: make, stifle, ck, open · To what, where: stifled noises
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 (i, snorts), 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 | Awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fun | amod |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 fun | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 fun | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 makes | cc |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fun | conj |
| 7 | stifled | stifle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 noises | amod |
| 8 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 10 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ck | punct |
| 12 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ck | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 i | punct |
| 14 | ck | ck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ck | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ck | punct |
| 16 | ck | ck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ck | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ck | punct |
| 18 | ck | ck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 k | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 » | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 p | cc |
| 21 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 p | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 poop | punct |
| 23 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ck | conj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 p | punct |
| 25 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 p | compound |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 snorts | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 snorts | case |
| 29 | snorts | snort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ck | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 bottles | cc |
| 31 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 water | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 soda | punct |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bottles | compound |
| 34 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 snorts | conj |
| 35 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 snorts | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | stifled noises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset noise=Beneficiary k=Product | |||||
| 2 | stifle in a quote | participle | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | ck | i | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | open in a quote | gerund | snorts or water bottles not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:29.
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 ×3. 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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