The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 26
Toad's crazes so far: «Once, it was nothing but sailing», then punting (pushing a flat boat along with a long pole), then «Last year it was house-boating».
Who acts: boat, Toad · What happens: be, sail, punt, push, boat, craze · To what, where: nothing, flat boat, long pole, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 (boat, Toad), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crazes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Toad | case |
| 3 | crazes | craze | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 crazes | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Once | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Once | punct |
| 8 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 crazes | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nothing | cop |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 crazes | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | ADP | _ | 14 sailing | case |
| 14 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 nothing | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 punting | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 punting | advmod |
| 18 | punting | punt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 crazes | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushing | punct |
| 20 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 punting | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 22 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boat | amod |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushing | obj |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 pole | case |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 pole | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pole | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pole | amod |
| 28 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushing | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushing | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 « | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 « | advmod |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 punting | punct |
| 33 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 year | amod |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 house | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 house | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 house | cop |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 punting | parataxis |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 boating | punct |
| 39 | boating | boat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 house | flat |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 punting | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crazes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | boat | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail in a quote | gerund | boat not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | punt | gerund | then | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | push | gerund | a flat boat | a long pole | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boat=Theme along pole=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | boat | house | year | tree rules | |||
| 6 | boat in a quote | gerund | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | craze | Toad | nom craze «cognition transitive»: 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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-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): 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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