The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 37
They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy».
Who acts: friends, Rat · What happens: instruct, feed, undress, put, scull, joy · To what, where: housekeeper, Toad
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, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 instructed | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
| 3 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 housekeeper | nmod:poss |
| 5 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instructed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 feed | mark |
| 7 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 instructed | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 feed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 undress | punct |
| 10 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 feed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 undress | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 feed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sculled | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | _ | 21 sculled | advmod |
| 21 | sculled | scull | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 instructed | conj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 sculled | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 parlour | case |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 parlour | punct |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 parlour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 parlour | amod |
| 27 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 parlour | amod |
| 28 | riverside | riverside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 parlour | compound |
| 29 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sculled | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 parlour | punct |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 joy | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Rat | det |
| 33 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 joy | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Rat | case |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 joy | amod |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sculled | obl |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other in a quote | past | friends = friend | Toad's housekeeper | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent housekeeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | Toad | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | undress in a quote | infinitive | friends = friend not said here | Toad | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | friends = friend not said here | Toad | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 5 | scull | past | friends = friend not said here | then | to friends's own cosy riverside parlour; to the Rat's great joy; home property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | joy in a quote | the Rat | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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.
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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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