The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 2
The Rat tells him off: while Toad rode about in cars and on horses, those two loyal friends have been camping out in all weathers, watching his house and planning to get it back.
Who acts: Rat, Toad, two loyal friends · What happens: tell off, ride, camp out, watch, planning, get back · To what, where: Toad, cars, weathers, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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, Toad, two loyal friends), 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 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 tells | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 rode | mark |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | parataxis |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 rode | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cars | case |
| 12 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rode | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horses | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cars | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 horses | punct |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 friends | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 friends | nummod |
| 19 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 camping | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 camping | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 camping | aux |
| 23 | camping | camp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rode | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 camping | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 weathers | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 weathers | det |
| 27 | weathers | weather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 camping | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watching | punct |
| 29 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 camping | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 watching | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 planning | cc |
| 33 | planning | planning | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 watching | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 get | mark |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 planning | xcomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 get | obj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 get | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | 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 | tell off speech: assert | present | the Rat | Toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Toad | cars and horses | about property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | camp out | present · perfect · progressive | that two loyal friends | all weathers | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | Toad's house | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 5 | planning | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | get back | to-infinitive | house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:2.
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, R8-pos-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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