The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 12
They haul him upstairs, kicking, and lock him in his bedroom, promising it's all for his own good, while Toad shouts rude names through the keyhole.
Who acts: friends, Toad, three · What happens: haul, kick, lock, promise, shout, be · To what, where: Badger, bedroom, keyhole
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 (friends, Toad, three), 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 haul | nsubj |
| 2 | haul | haul | 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 haul | obj |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 2 haul | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kicking | punct |
| 6 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 haul | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lock | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lock | cc |
| 9 | lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 haul | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lock | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bedroom | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lock | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promising | punct |
| 15 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 haul | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 names | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 names | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 names | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 names | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 good | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | amod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 names | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 names | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 shouts | mark |
| 25 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shouts | nsubj |
| 26 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 promising | advcl |
| 27 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 names | amod |
| 28 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shouts | obj |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 keyhole | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 keyhole | det |
| 31 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shouts | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 haul | 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 | haul | present | friends = friend | Badger | upstairs property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | kick | gerund | friends = friend not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lock | present | friends = friend not said here | Badger | Badger's bedroom | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | gerund | friends = friend not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | present | Toad | the keyhole | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | present | three | for good rude names; all property | tree rules |
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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:12.
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 ×3. 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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