The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 36
At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable.
Who acts: friends · What happens: leave, give, keep · To what, where: Toad, station, porter twopence, strict eye, horse, inn stable
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 (friends), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 station | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 station | det |
| 3 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 room | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 class | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 second | punct |
| 12 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 room | punct |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 twopence | det |
| 19 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 twopence | compound |
| 20 | twopence | twopence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 giving | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 eye | det |
| 24 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eye | amod |
| 25 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | obl |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 left | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 left | cc |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 horse | det |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 stable | case |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 stable | det |
| 36 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stable | compound |
| 37 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | friends = friend | Toad | the station | in the class waiting room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toad=Theme at station=Location | ||
| 2 | give in a quote | gerund | friends = friend not said here | a porter twopence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twopence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | a strict eye | on Toad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Location | |||
| 4 | leave | past | friends = friend not said here | the horse | a inn stable | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at stable=Location |
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:36.
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 ×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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