The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 9
They leave him with a porter at the station, catch a slow train home, hand Toad to his housekeeper and row back to their own cosy parlour.
Who acts: signs · What happens: leave, catch, hand, row back · To what, where: Toad, station, slow train, housekeeper, own cosy parlour
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), 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 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 porter | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 porter | det |
| 6 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 station | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 station | det |
| 9 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 train | det |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 train | amod |
| 14 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catch | obj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 catch | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Toad | punct |
| 17 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | conj |
| 18 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 housekeeper | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 housekeeper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 row | cc |
| 23 | row | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 row | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 parlour | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 parlour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 parlour | amod |
| 28 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 parlour | amod |
| 29 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 row | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | signs = sign | Toad | the station | with a porter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at station=Location | ||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | signs = sign not said here | a slow train | home property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | |||
| 3 | hand | infinitive | signs = sign not said here | Toad | Toad's housekeeper | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toad=Theme to housekeeper=Destination | |||
| 4 | row back | present | signs = sign not said here | signs's own cosy parlour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to parlour=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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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