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 29
The Rat: «He's always rather low and despondent when he's wanting his victuals.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: be, want · To what, where: victuals
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), 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 | 9 low | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 low | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | _ | 9 low | advmod |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 low | advmod |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 despondent | cc |
| 11 | despondent | despondent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 low | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 wanting | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanting | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wanting | aux |
| 15 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 low | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 victuals | nmod:poss |
| 17 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wanting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Rat | always, low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | the Rat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · progressive | Rat | Rat's victuals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot victual=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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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): R6-punct-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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