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 4
After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors.
Who acts: heavy knock · What happens: be
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 (heavy knock), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 supper | case |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knock | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knock | amod |
| 7 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Badger | punct |
| 9 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knock | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 muddy | punct |
| 11 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knock | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rough | cc |
| 13 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 muddy | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 nights | case |
| 15 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 muddy | obl |
| 16 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 15 nights | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | 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 | be | present | a heavy knock | there | after supper | vn exist-47.1 «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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:4.
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, 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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