The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 3
A Mole!», Rat with his belt bulging with weapons, and Toad puffed up to twice his size, whooping «I'll pleasure 'em!» and going straight for the Chief Weasel.
Who acts: belt, Toad, Mole, I · What happens: bulge, puff up, whoop, pleasure, go · To what, where: size, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (belt, Toad, Mole, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 going | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rat | punct |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 belt | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 belt | nmod:poss |
| 9 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | nmod |
| 10 | bulging | bulge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 belt | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 weapons | case |
| 12 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bulging | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 puffed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Toad | cc |
| 15 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 puffed | nsubj |
| 16 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mole | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 puffed | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 size | case |
| 19 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 size | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 size | nmod:poss |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puffed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whooping | punct |
| 23 | whooping | whoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Mole | conj |
| 24 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 27 pleasure | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 pleasure | nsubj |
| 26 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 pleasure | aux |
| 27 | pleasure | pleasure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 whooping | ccomp |
| 28 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pleasure | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 going | cc |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 33 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 32 going | advmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 Weasel | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Weasel | det |
| 36 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Weasel | compound |
| 37 | Weasel | weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 going | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mole | 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 | bulge in a quote | gerund | Mole's belt not said here | with weapons | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with weapon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | puff up in a quote | past | Toad | Mole's size | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to size=Location | ||||
| 3 | whoop speech: other in a quote | gerund | a Mole with Mole's belt not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pleasure | future | I | 'em = they | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | gerund | a Mole with Mole's belt | for the Chief Weasel; straight property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for weasel=Beneficiary |
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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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