The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 5
He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.
Who acts: Badger, new powerful motor car · What happens: hear, arrive · To what, where: Toad Hall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 (Badger, new powerful motor car), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 arriving | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 car | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 new | punct |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 powerful | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 extra | punct |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 car | amod |
| 11 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 car | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 motor | punct |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arriving | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 arriving | aux |
| 15 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Hall | case |
| 17 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hall | compound |
| 18 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 arriving | obl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 morning | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 morning | amod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arriving | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | Badger | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | arrive | present · progressive | a new powerful motor car | Toad Hall | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:5.
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 ×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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