The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 12
They'll keep sleeping at Toad Hall: Toad may be brought back any moment — on a stretcher, or between two policemen.
Who acts: sheets · What happens: keep, sleep, bring back · To what, where: Toad Hall, Toad, stretcher
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 (sheets), 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 | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Hall | case |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hall | compound |
| 7 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeping | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 9 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 brought | aux:pass |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sleeping | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 stretcher | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stretcher | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stretcher | det |
| 19 | stretcher | stretcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 policemen | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 policemen | cc |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 policemen | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 policemen | nummod |
| 24 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stretcher | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | future | sheets = sheet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | sheets = sheet not said here | Toad Hall | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring back | may · passive | Toad | a stretcher or two policemen | moment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on stretcher=Destination |
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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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): R8-pos-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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