The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 23
Otter dressed up as a sweep (a chimney-sweep) with brushes over his shoulder and asked at the back door for a job — and so found out the news.
Who acts: Otter · What happens: dress up, ask, find out · To what, where: back door, news
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (Otter), 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 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dressed | compound:prt |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 sweep | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sweep | det |
| 6 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweep | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sweep | det |
| 9 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sweep | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chimney | punct |
| 11 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweep | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweep | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brushes | case |
| 14 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sweep | nmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sweep | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 22 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 door | amod |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 job | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 job | det |
| 26 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 found | advmod |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 found | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 news | det |
| 33 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | 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 | dress up | past | Otter | as a sweep | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Otter not said here | the back door | for a job | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | find out | past | Otter not said here | the news | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic |
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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:23.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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