The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 31
The prisoners must make the bedrooms comfortable: «sweep under the beds... clean sheets and pillow-cases... a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap».
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: make, sweep · To what, where: bedrooms, beds · 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 (prisoners), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prisoners | det |
| 2 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bedrooms | det |
| 6 | bedrooms | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweep | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweep | punct |
| 10 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 beds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beds | det |
| 13 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sweep | obl |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 16 sheets | punct |
| 15 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sheets | amod |
| 16 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beds | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sheets | cc |
| 18 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cases | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pillow | punct |
| 20 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sheets | conj |
| 21 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 26 water | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 can | det |
| 23 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 can | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 towels | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 towels | cc |
| 29 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 towels | amod |
| 30 | towels | towel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 can | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cakes | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cakes | cc |
| 33 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cakes | amod |
| 34 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 can | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 soap | case |
| 36 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cakes | nmod |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | the prisoners | the bedrooms | a can of hot water and clean towels and fresh cakes of soap obl; comfortable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sweep in a quote | infinitive | the beds and clean sheets and pillow cases | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bed=Trajectory |
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:31.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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