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 8
The Rat whispers that Badger is always gloomy when he is hungry.
Who acts: Rat, Badger · What happens: whisper, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Badger), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 whispers | nsubj |
| 3 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gloomy | mark |
| 5 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gloomy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gloomy | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 gloomy | advmod |
| 8 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whispers | ccomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gloomy | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | the Rat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Badger | always, gloomy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Badger | hungry property | 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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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