The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 14
At first Toad has wild fits: he lines up bedroom chairs like a motor-car, crouches on the front one making engine noises, and ends by somersaulting into the wreck of chairs, quite satisfied.
Who acts: first Toad, Toad · What happens: have, line up, crouch, make, end, somersault · To what, where: wild fits, bedroom chairs, engine noises, wreck, chairs
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 (first Toad, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Toad | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Toad | amod |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fits | amod |
| 6 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 lines | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lines | nsubj |
| 9 | lines | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lines | compound:prt |
| 11 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chairs | compound |
| 12 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lines | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 car | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 car | det |
| 15 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 car | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 motor | punct |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lines | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crouches | punct |
| 19 | crouches | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lines | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crouches | obl |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 crouches | advcl |
| 25 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 noises | compound |
| 26 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 making | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ends | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ends | cc |
| 29 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lines | conj |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 31 somersaulting | mark |
| 31 | somersaulting | somersault | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 ends | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 wreck | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wreck | det |
| 34 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 somersaulting | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 chairs | case |
| 36 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wreck | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 satisfied | punct |
| 38 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 39 satisfied | advmod |
| 39 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wreck | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | first Toad | wild fits | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | line up | present | Toad | bedroom chairs | like a motor car | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Destination | |||
| 3 | crouch | present | Toad not said here | on the front one | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Toad not said here | engine noises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 5 | end | present | Toad not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | somersault | gerund | Toad not said here | the wreck of chairs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wreck=Destination | ||||
| 7 | wreck | chairs | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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