The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 1
Weasels dive under the tables and leap for the windows; ferrets rush for the fireplace and get stuck in the chimney; chairs tip over and china crashes.
Who acts: Weasels, ferrets, chairs, china · What happens: dive, leap, rush, get, tip over, crash · To what, where: tables
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (Weasels, ferrets, chairs, china), 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 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dive | nsubj |
| 2 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 tables | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tables | det |
| 5 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dive | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 leap | cc |
| 7 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dive | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 windows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 windows | det |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leap | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rush | punct |
| 12 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rush | nsubj |
| 13 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dive | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 fireplace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fireplace | det |
| 16 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rush | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leap | conj |
| 19 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 get | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chimney | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chimney | det |
| 22 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuck | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 tip | punct |
| 24 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tip | nsubj |
| 25 | tip | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dive | conj |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 tip | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 crashes | cc |
| 28 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crashes | nsubj |
| 29 | crashes | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tip | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dive | 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 | dive | present | Weasels | the tables | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | ||||
| 2 | leap | present | Weasels not said here | for the windows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | present | ferrets | for the fireplace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | Weasels not said here | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | tip over | present | chairs | over property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | crash | present | china | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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