The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 7
He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: decide, be, lock, run off · To what, where: safe side, door
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 decides | nsubj |
| 2 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 side | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 side | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decides | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 locks | punct |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 locks | advmod |
| 11 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 decides | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 locks | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 runs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 runs | cc |
| 16 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 decides | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 runs | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runs | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | Toad | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | the safe side | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lock | present | Toad not said here | the door | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | run off | present | Toad not said here | to the village result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result |
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: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): no change. 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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