The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 0
First they must catch the old grey horse, who was never asked and would much rather stay in his field.
Who acts: they · What happens: catch, not ask, stay · To what, where: old grey horse, field
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (they), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 catch | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | aux:pass |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 asked | advmod |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 horse | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stay | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | aux |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 rather | advmod |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 stay | advmod |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 field | nmod:poss |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | 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 | catch | must | they | the old grey horse | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | past · passive | the old grey horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | stay | would | horse's field | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:0.
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 ×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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