The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 1

He jumps up, shakes their paws, dances round them and says he was just about to send for them — he needs them badly.

Who acts: Toad · What happens: jump up, shake, dance, say, be, need · To what, where: paws · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumps	nsubj
2	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumps	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shakes	punct
5	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jumps	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 paws	nmod:poss
7	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shakes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dances	punct
9	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jumps	conj
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dances	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jumps	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 send	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 send	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 about	advmod
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 send	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 send	mark
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 send	obl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 needs	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 needs	nsubj
24	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jumps	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 needs	obj
26	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 needs	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump up	present	Toad			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	present	Toad not said here	knees's paws		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
3	dance	present	Toad not said here		round knees = knee	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	present	Toad not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	past	Toad		for knees = knee; about, send property	tree rules
6	need	present	Toad	paws = paw	badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:1.

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. 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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