The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 7
The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and for days he'll be useless, like an animal walking in a happy dream.
Who acts: Rat, Toad, animal · What happens: know, have, be, walk · To what, where: signs, new craze, 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, Toad, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 signs | det |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knows | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 craze | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 craze | amod |
| 11 | craze | craze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 useless | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 useless | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 useless | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 useless | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 useless | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 useless | cop |
| 19 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 has | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 animal | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 animal | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 animal | det |
| 23 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 useless | obl |
| 24 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 animal | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 dream | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dream | det |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dream | amod |
| 28 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the Rat | the signs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Toad | a new craze | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craze=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | future | Rat | day | like a animal; useless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | 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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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