The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 13
The old gaoler's rusty key creaks, the door clangs — and Toad is a helpless prisoner.
Who acts: rusty key, door, Toad · What happens: creak, clang, be · To what, where: helpless prisoner
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 (rusty key, door, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gaoler | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gaoler | amod |
| 3 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 key | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 gaoler | case |
| 5 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 key | amod |
| 6 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creaks | nsubj |
| 7 | creaks | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clangs | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clangs | nsubj |
| 11 | clangs | clang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 creaks | conj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 prisoner | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prisoner | cc |
| 14 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 prisoner | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 prisoner | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prisoner | det |
| 17 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prisoner | amod |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creaks | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 creaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | present | the old gaoler's rusty key | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | clang | present | the door | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Toad | a helpless prisoner | tree rules |
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:13.
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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