The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 0
The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!
Who acts: frightened old horse · What happens: frighten, rear, drag · To what, where: cart, deep ditch
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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 (frightened old horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horse | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rears | nsubj |
| 5 | rears | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 backs | cc |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rears | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drags | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drags | cc |
| 10 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rears | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cart | det |
| 12 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drags | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 ditch | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ditch | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ditch | amod |
| 16 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drags | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 crash | punct |
| 18 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ditch | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rears | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | rear | present | the frightened old horse | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drag | present | the frightened old horse not said here | the cart | the deep ditch and crash | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |
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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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): 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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