The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 10
The next evening the Rat brings the news everyone along the river is talking about: Toad took an early train to Town and has ordered a large and very expensive motor-car.
Who acts: Rat, everyone, Toad · What happens: bring, talk about, take, order · To what, where: news, early train, Town, large motor car
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 (Rat, everyone, Toad), 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 | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rat | det |
| 5 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obj |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 talking | nsubj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 everyone | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 talking | aux |
| 14 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 news | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 talking | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 train | det |
| 20 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 train | amod |
| 21 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Town | case |
| 23 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ordered | cc |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ordered | aux |
| 26 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 took | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 car | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 car | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 expensive | cc |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 expensive | advmod |
| 31 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 large | conj |
| 32 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 car | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 motor | punct |
| 34 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ordered | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the Rat | the news | evening | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk about | present · progressive | everyone | the news not said here | about property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent news=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | Toad | a early train | Town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent train=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 4 | order | present · perfect | Toad not said here | a large motor car | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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:10.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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