The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 30
Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking could rouse him»; the Mole «trudged off to the nearest village, a long way off, for milk and eggs and various necessaries the Toad had, of course, forgotten».
Who acts: Toad, amount, Mole · What happens: sleep, rouse, trudge off, forget, amount · To what, where: Toad, nearest village, various necessaries, shaking
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 (Toad, amount, Mole), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 soundly | advmod |
| 7 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 5 slept | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rouse | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rouse | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 amount | det |
| 11 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rouse | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shaking | case |
| 13 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amount | nmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rouse | aux |
| 15 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slept | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rouse | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 trudged | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mole | det |
| 20 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trudged | nsubj |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 trudged | punct |
| 22 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slept | parataxis |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 trudged | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 village | det |
| 26 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 village | amod |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trudged | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 off | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 off | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | off | off | ADV | _ | 22 trudged | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 milk | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 milk | case |
| 35 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trudged | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eggs | cc |
| 37 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 milk | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 necessaries | cc |
| 39 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 necessaries | amod |
| 40 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 milk | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Toad | det |
| 42 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 forgotten | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 forgotten | aux |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forgotten | punct |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 48 forgotten | advmod |
| 46 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 of | fixed |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forgotten | punct |
| 48 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 necessaries | acl:relcl |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | past | Toad | morning | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rouse in a quote | could | no amount of shaking | Toad | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | trudge off in a quote | past | the Mole | the nearest village | for milk and eggs and various necessaries; off property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 4 | forget in a quote | past · perfect | the Toad | various necessaries not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | amount in a quote | shaking | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:30.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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