The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 34
Toad: «Me complain of that beautiful, that heavenly vision ... that swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt! ...
Who acts: Rat · What happens: complain
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 | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
| 4 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 complain | nsubj |
| 5 | complain | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Toad | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beautiful | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 complain | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vision | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 vision | det |
| 11 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vision | amod |
| 12 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Toad | conj |
| 13 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 15 swan | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 swan | det |
| 15 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Toad | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sunbeam | punct |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sunbeam | det |
| 18 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swan | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thunderbolt | punct |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thunderbolt | det |
| 21 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swan | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
| 23 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | of beautiful | vn complain-37.8 «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:34.
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 ×2. 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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