The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 24
«As if in a dream … all sense of right and wrong, all fear of obvious consequences, seemed temporarily suspended.» He is «Toad the terror, the traffic-queller, the Lord of the lone trail».
Who acts: sense, sort · What happens: seem, suspend, be, fear · To what, where: dream, Toad, obvious consequences
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 (sense, sort), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 As | fixed |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dream | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | obl |
| 7 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 9 sense | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sense | det |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 right | case |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wrong | cc |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 right | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 fear | det |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sense | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 consequences | case |
| 18 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 consequences | amod |
| 19 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fear | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | temporarily | temporarily | ADV | _ | 23 suspended | advmod |
| 23 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 26 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Toad | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Toad | cop |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 Toad | punct |
| 29 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 terror | det |
| 31 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Toad | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 queller | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 queller | det |
| 34 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 queller | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 traffic | punct |
| 36 | queller | queller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 terror | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Lord | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Lord | det |
| 39 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 queller | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 trail | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 » | det |
| 42 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 trail | amod |
| 43 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Lord | nmod |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | past | all sense of right and all fear of obvious consequences | a dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | suspend in a quote | participle | all sense of right and all fear of obvious consequences not said here | temporarily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | sort | Toad | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear in a quote | obvious consequences | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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:24.
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): R7-rel-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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