The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 23
Badger carried «a dark lantern» (a lantern with a cover to hide the light) and set the order: «Mole first, 'cos I'm very pleased with him; Rat next; Toad last.»
Who acts: Badger · What happens: carry, hide, set, be · To what, where: dark lantern, light, order
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (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 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 lantern | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lantern | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lantern | amod |
| 6 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 lantern | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 lantern | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lantern | det |
| 10 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lantern | appos |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cover | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cover | det |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lantern | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hide | mark |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cover | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 lantern | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carried | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 order | det |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 « | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 Mole | punct |
| 25 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 order | appos |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 Mole | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Mole | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Mole | punct |
| 29 | cos | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 pleased | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 pleased | nsubj |
| 31 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 pleased | cop |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 pleased | advmod |
| 33 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Mole | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pleased | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 Rat | punct |
| 37 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mole | conj |
| 38 | next | next | ADV | _ | 37 Rat | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 Toad | punct |
| 40 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Mole | conj |
| 41 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Toad | amod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Badger | a dark lantern | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | the light | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Badger not said here | the order | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient order=Result | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Badger | with Badger; pleased 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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