The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 7
Mole goes out to check on the stoat sentries; Badger wants supper, and Toad, a little hurt that nobody praises him, hunts out cold chicken, trifle and lobster salad.
Who acts: Mole, Badger, nobody, Toad · What happens: go out, check, want, praise, hunt out · To what, where: stoat sentries, supper, Mole, cold chicken
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 (Mole, Badger, nobody, Toad), 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 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 check | mark |
| 5 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 goes | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sentries | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sentries | det |
| 8 | stoat | stoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentries | compound |
| 9 | sentries | sentry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 check | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 wants | punct |
| 11 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wants | nsubj |
| 12 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | parataxis |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wants | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Toad | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hunts | cc |
| 16 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hunts | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hurt | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hurt | amod |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Toad | appos |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 praises | mark |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 praises | nsubj |
| 23 | praises | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 praises | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hunts | punct |
| 26 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hunts | compound:prt |
| 28 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chicken | amod |
| 29 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hunts | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 trifle | punct |
| 31 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chicken | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 salad | cc |
| 33 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 salad | compound |
| 34 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chicken | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | Mole | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | check | to-infinitive | Mole not said here | the stoat sentries | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sentry=Location | ||||
| 3 | want | present | Badger | supper | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | praise | present | nobody | Mole | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunt out | present | Toad | cold chicken and trifle and lobster salad | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
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:7.
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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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