The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 19
The cart: «Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully».
Who acts: bird cage · What happens: scatter, sob · To what, where: sardine tins, wide world
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 (bird cage), 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 | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Panels | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 cart | punct |
| 5 | Panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cart | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 windows | cc |
| 7 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Panels | conj |
| 8 | smashed | smashed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Panels | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 axles | punct |
| 10 | axles | axle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Panels | conj |
| 11 | hopelessly | hopelessly | ADV | _ | 12 bent | advmod |
| 12 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 axles | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wheel | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 wheel | nummod |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Panels | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 wheel | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sardine | punct |
| 18 | sardine | sardine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tins | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tins | punct |
| 20 | tins | tin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Panels | conj |
| 21 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tins | acl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scattered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bird | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bird | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cart | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 cage | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cage | det |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cage | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 bird | punct |
| 34 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bird | nmod |
| 35 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 cage | acl |
| 36 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 35 sobbing | advmod |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 cart | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cart | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter in a quote | participle | sardine tins not said here | the wide world | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over world=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sob in a quote | gerund | the bird cage not said here | pitifully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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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