The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 1

The lovely canary-coloured cart lies on its side, smashed beyond repair, sardine tins everywhere and the bird in its cage sobbing to be let out.

Who acts: lovely coloured cart, bird · What happens: lie, sob, let out · To what, where: side

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 (lovely coloured cart, bird), 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	6 cart	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cart	amod
3	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coloured	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 canary	punct
5	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cart	amod
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lies	nsubj
7	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 side	nmod:poss
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lies	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smashed	punct
12	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	advcl
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 repair	case
14	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smashed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sardine	punct
16	sardine	sardine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tins	compound
17	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lies	parataxis
18	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 sardine	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bird	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tins	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cage	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cage	nmod:poss
24	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bird	nmod
25	sobbing	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 bird	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 let	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	aux:pass
28	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sobbing	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 let	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	lie	present	the lovely coloured cart	cart's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	sob	gerund	the bird in cart's cage not said here		tree rules
3	let out	to-infinitive · passive	the bird in cart's cage not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

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:1.

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. 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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