The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 36
Old words: «trudging» = walking heavily; «necessaries» = things you need; «turned in» = went to bed; «whence» = from where; «fleet and unforeseen» = fast and unexpected; «after-career» = the rest of his life.
Who acts: Old words, you · What happens: trudge, walk, need, turn in, go · To what, where: things, whence, bed
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 (Old words, you), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 trudging | punct |
| 5 | trudging | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 words | dep |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 trudging | punct |
| 7 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 words | acl |
| 9 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 8 walking | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 necessaries | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 necessaries | punct |
| 12 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | appos |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 necessaries | punct |
| 14 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 15 things | punct |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 need | nsubj |
| 17 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 words | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 turned | compound:prt |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 23 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 whence | punct |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 whence | punct |
| 29 | whence | whence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 whence | punct |
| 31 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 33 where | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 where | case |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 went | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 fleet | punct |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 fleet | punct |
| 36 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 where | appos |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 unforeseen | cc |
| 38 | unforeseen | unforeseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fleet | conj |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 fleet | punct |
| 40 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 41 fast | punct |
| 41 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fleet | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 unexpected | cc |
| 43 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fast | conj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 » | punct |
| 45 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 49 » | punct |
| 46 | after | after | ADP | _ | 49 » | case |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 after | punct |
| 48 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 » | compound |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 where | punct |
| 50 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 49 » | punct |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 rest | det |
| 52 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 where | nsubj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 life | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 life | nmod:poss |
| 55 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 rest | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trudge in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Old words and things not said here | heavily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | you | things not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn in in a quote | past | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | Old words and things | whence | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location from where=Destination |
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:36.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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