The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 8
Toad strolls out fresh and says how easy life is now!
Who acts: Toad, easy life · What happens: stroll out, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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, easy 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 strolls | nsubj |
| 2 | strolls | stroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 strolls | advmod |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strolls | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 says | cc |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 strolls | conj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 easy | advmod |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 now | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 now | cop |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 says | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 strolls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll out | present | Toad | fresh, out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Toad not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | easy life | now property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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