The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 26
Three offences: «first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police» (impertinence = rude cheek).
Who acts: Three offences · What happens: steal, drive · To what, where: valuable motor car, public danger
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 (Three offences), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 offences | nummod |
| 2 | offences | offence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stealing | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 offences | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stealing | punct |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 stealing | mark |
| 8 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 10 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 car | amod |
| 11 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 car | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 motor | punct |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 secondly | punct |
| 15 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 8 stealing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 driving | punct |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 driving | mark |
| 18 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stealing | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 danger | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 danger | det |
| 21 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 danger | amod |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 driving | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 impertinence | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 impertinence | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | thirdly | thirdly | ADV | _ | 30 impertinence | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 impertinence | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 impertinence | case |
| 29 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 impertinence | amod |
| 30 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 » | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 police | det |
| 33 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 police | amod |
| 34 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 impertinence | nmod |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 impertinence | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 impertinence | punct |
| 37 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 impertinence | parataxis |
| 38 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 40 cheek | punct |
| 39 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cheek | amod |
| 40 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 impertinence | conj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 impertinence | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 offences | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal in a quote | gerund | Three offences | a valuable motor car | secondly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive in a quote | gerund | Three offences not said here | the public danger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to danger=Trajectory |
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:26.
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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