The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 8
They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after them, thanking the Rat for bringing him on the trip where he saw that «swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt».
Who acts: signs, Toad · What happens: walk, trail, thank, bring, see · To what, where: five miles, Rat, trip, swan
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 (signs, Toad), 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 | 2 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 six | cc |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 five | conj |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walk | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 trailing | nsubj |
| 13 | trailing | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 walk | advcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trailing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanking | punct |
| 17 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 walk | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rat | det |
| 19 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thanking | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 bringing | mark |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 thanking | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bringing | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 trip | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trip | det |
| 25 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 saw | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trip | acl:relcl |
| 29 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 31 swan | det |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 swan | punct |
| 31 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sunbeam | punct |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 sunbeam | det |
| 34 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swan | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thunderbolt | punct |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 thunderbolt | det |
| 37 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swan | conj |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 swan | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | signs = sign | five miles | to the nearest town result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | |||
| 2 | trail | gerund | Toad | after signs = sign | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | signs = sign not said here | the Rat | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | signs = sign not said here | Rat | the trip | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on trip=Destination | |||
| 5 | see | past | Toad | that swan and that thunderbolt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus |
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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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