The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 2
Toad has smashed his seventh motor-car; his coach-house is piled to the roof with bits of cars; he has been in hospital three times and paid huge fines.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: smash, pile, pay · To what, where: seventh motor car, coach house, huge fines
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smashed | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smashed | aux |
| 3 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 car | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 car | amod |
| 6 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 car | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 motor | punct |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smashed | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 smashed | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 coach | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 piled | aux:pass |
| 15 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 smashed | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piled | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bits | case |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 piled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cars | case |
| 22 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bits | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 smashed | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 been | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 been | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 smashed | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hospital | case |
| 28 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 been | obl |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 times | nummod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 been | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 paid | cc |
| 32 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smashed | conj |
| 33 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fines | amod |
| 34 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 paid | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smashed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | present · perfect | Toad | Toad's seventh motor car | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pile | present · passive | Toad's coach house | to the roof; with bits of cars | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | Toad not said here | huge fines | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset |
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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:2.
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, 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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