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 33
And that's the gallant Water Rat, a terrible fighter, walking along o' him!
Who acts: that, terrible fighter · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: gallant Water Rat
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 (that, terrible fighter), 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 | _ | 7 Rat | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Rat | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Rat | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rat | det |
| 5 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rat | amod |
| 6 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rat | compound |
| 7 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rat | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fighter | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fighter | amod |
| 11 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Rat | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fighter | acl |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 him | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 him | punct |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 walking | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the gallant Water Rat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a terrible fighter not said here | of Rat; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of he=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:33.
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): no change. 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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