The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 5
He leads them to the stable-yard, and there stands a brand-new horse-drawn caravan, canary-yellow with green trim and red wheels.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: lead, stand, draw · To what, where: paws, brand new drawn caravan
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 leads | nsubj |
| 2 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leads | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 yard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yard | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 yard | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 stable | punct |
| 8 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leads | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stands | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 stands | expl |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leads | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 caravan | det |
| 14 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caravan | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 brand | punct |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 caravan | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawn | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 caravan | amod |
| 20 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yellow | punct |
| 22 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yellow | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 canary | punct |
| 24 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 caravan | appos |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 trim | case |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trim | amod |
| 27 | trim | trim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yellow | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wheels | cc |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wheels | amod |
| 30 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 trim | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | Toad | paws = paw | to the stable yard | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to yard=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | present | Toad not said here | a brand new drawn caravan | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caravan=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:5.
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 ×3. 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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