The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 29
He'll continue like that for days now, like an animal walking in a happy dream, quite useless for all practical purposes.»
Who acts: Rat, animal · What happens: continue, walk · To what, where: happy dream
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, animal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continue | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 continue | aux |
| 3 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 continue | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continue | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | _ | 3 continue | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 animal | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 animal | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continue | obl |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 animal | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dream | det |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dream | amod |
| 17 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 useless | punct |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 useless | advmod |
| 20 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dream | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 purposes | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 purposes | det |
| 23 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 purposes | amod |
| 24 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 useless | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continue | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | future | Rat | now; day | like that; like a animal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a animal not said here | a happy dream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory |
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:29.
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): no change. 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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