The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 18
«Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road ... his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured "Poop-poop!"» (placid = calm).
Who acts: Toad, face · What happens: sit, wear, murmur · To what, where: middle, placid satisfied expression, Poop poop, intervals
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 (Toad, face), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 11 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 road | amod |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 13 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wore | nsubj |
| 16 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 expression | det |
| 18 | placid | placid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 expression | amod |
| 19 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 expression | amod |
| 20 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wore | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 murmured | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 murmured | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 intervals | case |
| 24 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 murmured | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 murmured | nsubj |
| 26 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 27 murmured | advmod |
| 27 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wore | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 poop | punct |
| 29 | Poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 poop | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Poop | punct |
| 31 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 murmured | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 poop | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 poop | punct |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 placid | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 placid | punct |
| 36 | placid | placid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 murmured | parataxis |
| 37 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 38 calm | punct |
| 38 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 placid | conj |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 murmured | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | past | Toad | the middle of the dusty road | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | wear in a quote | past | Toad's face | a placid satisfied expression | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent expression=Source | ||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other in a quote | past | face | Poop poop | intervals | faintly 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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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