The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 40

In his «violent paroxysms» (fits) Toad would «arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motor-car», crouch on the front one «making uncouth and ghastly noises», then turn «a complete somersault» and lie «amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied».

Who acts: Toad · What happens: arrange, crouch, make, turn, lie, ruin · To what, where: bedroom chairs, « violent paroxysms, uncouth noises, complete somersault, 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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	5 paroxysms	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 paroxysms	nmod:poss
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 paroxysms	amod
4	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paroxysms	amod
5	paroxysms	paroxysm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrange	obl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 paroxysms	nmod:unmarked
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 fits	punct
8	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paroxysms	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 fits	punct
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 arrange	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 arrange	aux
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 arrange	punct
13	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chairs	compound
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrange	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 resemblance	case
17	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 resemblance	amod
18	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrange	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 car	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 car	det
21	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 car	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 motor	punct
23	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 resemblance	nmod
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 arrange	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crouch	punct
26	crouch	crouch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrange	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crouch	obl
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 making	punct
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 crouch	advcl
33	uncouth	uncouth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 noises	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ghastly	cc
35	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 uncouth	conj
36	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 making	obj
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 making	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 turn	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 turn	advmod
40	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrange	conj
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	44 somersault	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 somersault	det
43	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 somersault	amod
44	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turn	obj
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 somersault	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lie	cc
47	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrange	conj
48	«	«	PUNCT	_	49 amidst	punct
49	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	51 ruins	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ruins	det
51	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 lie	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 chairs	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 chairs	det
54	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 ruins	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 satisfied	punct
56	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	58 satisfied	advmod
57	completely	completely	ADV	_	58 satisfied	advmod
58	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 lie	xcomp
59	»	»	PUNCT	_	47 lie	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 arrange	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange in a quote	would	Toad	bedroom chairs	Toad's « violent paroxysms		in rude resemblance of a motor car	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme in paroxysm=Destination
2	crouch	infinitive	Toad not said here				on the front one	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
3	make in a quote	gerund	Toad not said here	uncouth noises				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
4	turn	infinitive	Toad not said here	a complete somersault		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
5	lie	infinitive	Toad not said here				amidst the ruins of the chairs; satisfied property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ruin in a quote			the chairs				nom ruin «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:40.

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): R2-punct-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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