The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 3

Halfway through, he hears it: «Poop-poop!» A motor-car pulls into the inn-yard and its owners come in, chattering about their drive.

Who acts: brain, motor car, owners · What happens: hear, pull, come in, chatter, drive · To what, where: lunch

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, motor car, 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	Halfway	halfway	ADV	_	2 through	advmod
2	through	through	ADV	_	5 hears	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 through	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hears	nsubj
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hears	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 poop	punct
9	Poop	poop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poop	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Poop	punct
11	poop	poop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hears	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 poop	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 poop	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 car	det
15	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 car	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 motor	punct
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulls	nsubj
18	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hears	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 yard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yard	det
21	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yard	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 inn	punct
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulls	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 owners	nmod:poss
26	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
27	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pulls	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 chattering	punct
30	chattering	chatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 come	advcl
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 drive	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 drive	nmod:poss
33	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chattering	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	brain	lunch	Poop poop obl; through property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	pull	present	a motor car		into the inn yard	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come in	present	lunch's owners			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	chatter	gerund	lunch's owners not said here		about owners's drive	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about drive=Topic
5	drive		owners = owner			nom drive «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/3/