The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 14
Mole got the idea in the kitchen, where he found «that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire» (a towel-horse = a wooden frame for drying cloths).
Who acts: Mole, wooden frame · What happens: get, find, come, hang, dry · To what, where: idea, kitchen, washerwoman dress, fire, cloths · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (Mole, wooden frame), 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 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kitchen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kitchen | det |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 found | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 washerwoman | punct |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 washerwoman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 washerwoman | amod |
| 15 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dress | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 dress | punct |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dress | acl:relcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 yesterday | case |
| 23 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hanging | punct |
| 25 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 came | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 horse | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 horse | det |
| 28 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 horse | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 towel | punct |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hanging | obl |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 » | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fire | det |
| 33 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hanging | obl |
| 34 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hanging | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 horse | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 horse | det |
| 37 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 horse | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 towel | punct |
| 39 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 » | appos |
| 40 | = | = | SYM | _ | 43 frame | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 frame | det |
| 42 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 frame | amod |
| 43 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 horse | appos |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 drying | mark |
| 45 | drying | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 frame | acl |
| 46 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 drying | obj |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 horse | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mole | the idea | the kitchen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | Mole | washerwoman dress | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | Mole | washerwoman dress not said here | yesterday | home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme | ||
| 4 | hang in a quote | gerund | Mole not said here | the fire | before » | on a towel horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||
| 5 | dry | gerund | a wooden frame not said here | cloths | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cloth=Result |
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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:14.
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 ×5, R8-pos-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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