The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 25
Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
Who acts: Rat · What happens: fling · To what, where: carts, ditch
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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fling | dep |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fling | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 fling | punct |
| 4 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 carts | det |
| 5 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fling | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fling | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fling | aux |
| 8 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 8 fling | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 ditch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ditch | det |
| 12 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fling | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wake | det |
| 15 | wake | wake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fling | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 onset | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 onset | nmod:poss |
| 18 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 onset | amod |
| 19 | onset | onset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wake | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 fling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling in a quote | shall | the Rat = rat | what carts | the ditch | in the wake of my magnificent onset; carelessly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cart=Theme into ditch=Destination |
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.
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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, R7-rel-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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