The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 21
The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, in the old meaning).
Who acts: owners · What happens: be
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 (owners), 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 | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owners | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 car | case |
| 4 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 talkative | punct |
| 9 | talkative | talkative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hungry | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gay | cc |
| 12 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hungry | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 gay | punct |
| 15 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | parataxis |
| 16 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 cheerful | punct |
| 17 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gay | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meaning | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 meaning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meaning | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meaning | amod |
| 22 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gay | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 gay | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the car's owners | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | the car's owners not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | the car's owners not said here | 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:21.
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. 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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