The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 25
The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels».
Who acts: caravan · What happens: shine, paint, pick out · To what, where: canary yellow
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 (caravan), 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 caravan | det |
| 2 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shining | aux |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 shining | punct |
| 5 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 caravan | appos |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 newness | case |
| 7 | newness | newness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shining | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 yellow | det |
| 11 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yellow | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 canary | punct |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | obj |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 yellow | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 green | case |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 picked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wheels | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wheels | cc |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wheels | amod |
| 21 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine in a quote | past · progressive | with newness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with newness=Theme | |||||
| 2 | paint in a quote | past | the caravan | a canary yellow | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent yellow=Patient wheel=Result | ||||
| 3 | pick out in a quote | participle | a canary yellow not said here | with green | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:25.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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