The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 0
Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force!
Who acts: Toad, brain · What happens: strut, sing, beat, praise · To what, where: miles, high road, own praises, brute force
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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, brain), 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 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 struts | nsubj |
| 2 | struts | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struts | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 miles | punct |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 struts | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 miles | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 singing | punct |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 struts | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 praises | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 praises | amod |
| 15 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 singing | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 beaten | punct |
| 17 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beaten | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beaten | aux |
| 19 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 struts | parataxis |
| 20 | brute | brute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 force | amod |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beaten | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 struts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strut | present | Toad | miles from home | the high road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | Toad not said here | Toad's own praises | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beat | present · perfect | brain | brute force | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=Theme | ||||
| 4 | praise | Toad | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:0.
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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