The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 31
In the boat-house the boats were «slung from the cross beams or hauled up on a slip, but none in the water» (the Mole, who can row now, had shipped his sculls as they glided in); «Boating is played out.
Who acts: Mole, boats · What happens: sling, haul up, row, ship, glide, play out · To what, where: boats, boat house, slip, sculls, Boating
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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, boats), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 boat | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slung | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boats | det |
| 7 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slung | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slung | aux:pass |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 slung | punct |
| 10 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 beams | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beams | det |
| 13 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beams | compound |
| 14 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slung | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 hauled | cc |
| 16 | hauled | haul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slung | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 hauled | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 slip | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 slip | det |
| 20 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hauled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 none | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 none | cc |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 boats | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 none | nmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 none | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 shipped | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mole | det |
| 30 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shipped | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mole | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 row | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 row | aux |
| 34 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 Mole | acl:relcl |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 row | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mole | punct |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 shipped | aux |
| 38 | shipped | ship | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slung | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sculls | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sculls | scull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 shipped | obj |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 glided | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 glided | nsubj |
| 43 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 shipped | advcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADV | _ | 43 glided | advmod |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 shipped | punct |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 Boating | punct |
| 47 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 48 Boating | punct |
| 48 | Boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 played | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 played | aux:pass |
| 50 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slung | parataxis |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 played | compound:prt |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slung | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sling in a quote | past · passive | the boats | the boat house | from the cross beams | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in house=Destination | |||
| 2 | haul up in a quote | participle | a slip | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | row | can | the Mole | now | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ship | past · perfect | the Mole | Mole's sculls | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glide | past | boats = boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | play out in a quote | present · passive | Boating | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:31.
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): R6-punct-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.
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