The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 14

At first Toad «had taken by-paths, and crossed many fields, and changed his course several times, in case of pursuit» (pursuit = being chased).

Who acts: first Toad · What happens: take, cross, change, chase · To what, where: paths, many fields, course, case · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (first 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Toad	case
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Toad	amod
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 paths	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taken	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crossed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crossed	cc
12	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	conj
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fields	amod
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crossed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 changed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 changed	cc
17	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 course	nmod:poss
19	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 changed	obj
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 changed	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 case	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 case	case
24	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 changed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 pursuit	case
26	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 case	nmod
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 pursuit	punct
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
30	=	=	PUNCT	_	32 chased	punct
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 chased	aux:pass
32	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 taken	parataxis
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 chased	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	past · perfect	first Toad	paths			pursuit obl	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent path=Theme clause=Attribute
2	cross in a quote	participle	first Toad not said here	many fields				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
3	change in a quote	past	first Toad not said here	Toad's course	case of pursuit	time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient
4	chase	gerund · passive						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»

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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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