The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 16
Toad: «Smart piece of work that! … Brain against brute force—and brain came out on the top».
Who acts: Brain · What happens: come out · To what, where: Smart piece, top
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 (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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
| 4 | Smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Toad | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 piece | dep |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
| 10 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
| 11 | Brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 force | case |
| 13 | brute | brute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 force | amod |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brain | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out in a quote | past | Brain against brute force | Smart piece of work not said here | the top | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient piece=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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:16.
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 ×4. 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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