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 31
We four, with our sticks... shall clear the floor of all the lot of them in five minutes.»
Who acts: We · What happens: clear · To what, where: floor
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 clear | nsubj |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 We | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sticks | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sticks | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 We | obl |
| 7 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 9 clear | punct |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 clear | aux |
| 9 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clear | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lot | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 lot | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 floor | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lot | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 minutes | case |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 minutes | nummod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clear | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 clear | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | shall | We | the floor of all lot of sticks | minute | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent floor=Source |
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:31.
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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