The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 31
Toad appeared «fresh and gay, remarking what a pleasant easy life it was», after «the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home» (gay here = cheerful, its old meaning).
Who acts: Toad, life · What happens: appear, remark, be, fatigue, mean · To what, where: pleasant easy life, housekeeping
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, life), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 appeared | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gay | cc |
| 6 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarking | punct |
| 8 | remarking | remark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 13 life | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 11 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 12 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remarking | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 life | cop |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarking | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 « | punct |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 cares | case |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 cares | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cares | det |
| 21 | cares | care | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remarking | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 worries | cc |
| 23 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cares | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fatigues | cc |
| 25 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cares | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 housekeeping | case |
| 27 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fatigues | nmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 housekeeping | nmod |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 cares | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 gay | punct |
| 32 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | parataxis |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 gay | advmod |
| 34 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 35 cheerful | punct |
| 35 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gay | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 meaning | punct |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 meaning | amod |
| 39 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gay | appos |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarking | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Toad | fresh property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert in a quote | gerund | Toad not said here | after the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | what pleasant easy life | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fatigue in a quote | housekeeping at home | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mean | life | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:31.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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