The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 7

In front of the Hall stands a huge shiny red car, and down the steps swaggers Toad in goggles, cap, gaiters, gauntlets and an enormous overcoat: «Come on, you fellows, for a jolly — a jolly — er — jolly…» His words fade when he sees their stern faces.

Who acts: Toad, you, words · What happens: stand, swagger, come on, fellow, fade, see · To what, where: huge shiny red car, front, stern faces · 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 (Toad, you, words), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 front	case
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stands	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hall	det
5	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 front	nmod
6	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 car	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 car	amod
9	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 car	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 car	amod
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stands	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swaggers	cc
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 steps	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steps	det
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swaggers	obl
17	swaggers	swagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stands	conj
18	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swaggers	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 goggles	case
20	goggles	goggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Toad	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cap	punct
22	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goggles	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gaiters	punct
24	gaiters	gaiter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cap	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gauntlets	punct
26	gauntlets	gauntlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cap	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 overcoat	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 overcoat	det
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 overcoat	amod
30	overcoat	overcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cap	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 steps	punct
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 Come	punct
33	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stands	parataxis
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 Come	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fellows	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 fellows	nsubj
37	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Come	vocative
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 jolly	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 jolly	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 jolly	det
41	jolly	jolly	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Come	parataxis
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 jolly	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 jolly	det
44	jolly	jolly	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 jolly	conj
45	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 er	punct
46	er	er	INTJ	_	49 …	reparandum
47	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 er	punct
48	jolly	jolly	ADV	_	49 …	advmod
49	…	…	ADV	Typo=Yes	6 stands	advmod
50	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 stands	punct
51	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 words	nmod:poss
52	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 fade	nsubj
53	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stands	parataxis
54	when	when	SCONJ	_	56 sees	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 sees	nsubj
56	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 fade	advcl
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 faces	nmod:poss
58	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 faces	amod
59	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sees	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present		a huge shiny red car	front of the Hall	… property	tree rules
2	swagger	present	Toad in goggles and cap and gaiters and gauntlets and a enormous overcoat			down the steps	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory
3	come on in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fellow in a quote		you				tree rules
5	fade	present	Toad's words				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	see	present	Toad	words's stern faces			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
7	word		Toad				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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