The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 2
The Rat dances in the road shaking his fists at the vanished car: «You villains! ... you roadhogs!
Who acts: Rat · What happens: dance, shake, vanish · To what, where: road, fists, vanished 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), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dances | nsubj |
| 3 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dances | obl |
| 7 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dances | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fists | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shaking | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 car | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 car | amod |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shaking | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 You | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 You | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dances | parataxis |
| 17 | villains | villain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 villains | punct |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 You | conj |
| 21 | roadhogs | roadhog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 You | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | the Rat | the road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | the Rat not said here | Rat's fists | the vanished car | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fist=Theme at car=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | vanish | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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