The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 0
The River in «The Wind in the Willows» never gets a name, but it is really the Thames, where Kenneth Grahame grew up and walked all his life: willows, water-meadows, weirs, locks and big houses on the banks.
Who acts: River, Kenneth · What happens: not get, be, grow up, walk · To what, where: name, Thames, life
This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» of the geography 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 (River, Kenneth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 River | det |
| 2 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Wind | case |
| 4 | « | « | ADP | _ | 6 Wind | case |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wind | det |
| 6 | Wind | wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 River | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Willows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Willows | det |
| 9 | Willows | willow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Wind | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 gets | advmod |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Thames | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Thames | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Thames | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Thames | cop |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 Thames | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Thames | det |
| 21 | Thames | Thames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grew | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 grew | advmod |
| 24 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | Grahame | Grahame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Kenneth | flat |
| 26 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Thames | acl:relcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 grew | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 walked | cc |
| 29 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 grew | conj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 life | det:predet |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walked | obj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 willows | punct |
| 34 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 life | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 meadows | punct |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 meadows | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 water | punct |
| 38 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 willows | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 weirs | punct |
| 40 | weirs | weir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 willows | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 locks | punct |
| 42 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 willows | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 houses | cc |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 houses | amod |
| 45 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 locks | conj |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 banks | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 banks | det |
| 48 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 houses | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | the River in the Wind in the Willows | a name | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | River | the Thames | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | Kenneth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | Kenneth not said here | Kenneth's life willows and water meadows and weirs and locks and big houses on the banks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=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:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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