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 18
«Some of the stoats turned quite pink» — they were embarrassed.
Who acts: Some, stoats · What happens: turn, be
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 (Some, stoats), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stoats | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stoats | det |
| 5 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Some | nmod |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 pink | advmod |
| 8 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 embarrassed | cop |
| 13 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | past | Some | pink property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stoats = stoat | embarrassed 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:18.
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 ×2, 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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