The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 10
Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-cleaning and found the River, a best friend in the Rat, the shelter of Badger's home in the snowy Wild Wood, and the sweetness of his own little home again.
Who acts: Mole, Badger · What happens: look back, fling down, find, clean · To what, where: spring cleaning, River
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 book | amod |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 back | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Mole | det |
| 9 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | nsubj |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 flung | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cleaning | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 spring | punct |
| 15 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flung | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 River | det |
| 19 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friend | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 River | appos |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Rat | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rat | det |
| 26 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shelter | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shelter | det |
| 29 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 River | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 31 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Badger | case |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shelter | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Wood | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Wood | det |
| 36 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Wood | amod |
| 37 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 38 Wood | flat |
| 38 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 home | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sweetness | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sweetness | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sweetness | det |
| 42 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 River | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 home | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 home | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 home | amod |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 home | amod |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sweetness | nmod |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fling down | past | a Mole | Badger's spring cleaning | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past | a Mole not said here | the River and the sweetness of Badger's own little home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic | ||||
| 4 | clean | Badger | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:10.
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): 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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