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 26
Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths open; and this gave him the greatest satisfaction».
Who acts: Badger, this · What happens: keep, stare, give · To what, where: greatest satisfaction, Badger
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 (Badger, this), 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 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Rat | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Badger | conj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 staring | punct |
| 7 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 staring | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 mouths | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 staring | obl |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mouths | amod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 satisfaction | det |
| 21 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 satisfaction | amod |
| 22 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Badger and the Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stare in a quote | gerund | Badger and the Rat not said here | with things's mouths; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | this | the greatest satisfaction | Badger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient satisfaction=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:26.
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): 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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