The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 16

And the Rat reveals he caught the invitations in time — Mole is now writing plain, simple ones in the blue boudoir (a small, pretty sitting-room).

Who acts: Rat, Toad, Mole · What happens: reveal, catch, write · To what, where: invitations, plain simple ones, blue boudoir

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (Rat, Toad, Mole), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 reveals	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reveals	nsubj
4	reveals	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reveals	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 invitations	det
8	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 writing	punct
12	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 writing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 writing	aux
14	now	now	ADV	_	15 writing	advmod
15	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 caught	advcl
16	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ones	punct
18	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 writing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 boudoir	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boudoir	det
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boudoir	amod
23	boudoir	boudoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 writing	obl
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 room	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 room	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 room	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 small	punct
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 room	amod
29	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 room	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sitting	punct
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boudoir	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 room	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reveals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	reveal	present	the Rat				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	catch	past	Toad	the invitations		time	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
3	write	present · progressive	Mole	plain simple ones	the blue boudoir	now	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in boudoir=Destination

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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:16.

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 ×3, 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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