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The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 31

The crowd pelt him «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words»; school children enjoy «the sight of a gentleman in difficulties».

Who acts: crowd, school children · What happens: pelt, enjoy, sight · To what, where: writer, sight, gentleman

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 (crowd, school children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

detnsubjobjpunctcaseoblpunctconjpunctccamodcompoundpunctconjpunctpunctcompoundnsubjparataxispunctdetobjcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctpunctrootTheDETcrowdNOUNpeltVERBhimPRON«PUNCTwithADPjeersNOUN,PUNCTcarrotsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJpopularADJcatchNOUN-PUNCTwordsNOUN»PUNCT;PUNCTschoolNOUNchildrenNOUNenjoyVERB«PUNCTtheDETsightNOUNofADPaDETgentlemanNOUNinADPdifficultiesNOUN»PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 crowddet
2crowdcrowdNOUNNumber=Sing3 peltnsubj
3peltpeltVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 peltobj
5««PUNCT_3 peltpunct
6withwithADP_7 jeerscase
7jeersjeerNOUNNumber=Plur3 peltobl
8,,PUNCT_9 carrotspunct
9carrotscarrotNOUNNumber=Plur7 jeersconj
10,,PUNCT_15 wordspunct
11andandCCONJ_15 wordscc
12popularpopularADJDegree=Pos15 wordsamod
13catchcatchNOUNNumber=Sing15 wordscompound
14--PUNCT_13 catchpunct
15wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur7 jeersconj
16»»PUNCT_7 jeerspunct
17;;PUNCT_20 enjoypunct
18schoolschoolNOUNNumber=Sing19 childrencompound
19childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur20 enjoynsubj
20enjoyenjoyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 peltparataxis
21««PUNCT_23 sightpunct
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 sightdet
23sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing20 enjoyobj
24ofofADP_26 gentlemancase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 gentlemandet
26gentlemangentlemanNOUNNumber=Sing23 sightnmod
27ininADP_28 difficultiescase
28difficultiesdifficultyNOUNNumber=Plur26 gentlemannmod
29»»PUNCT_20 enjoypunct
30..PUNCT_3 peltpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1peltpastthe crowdwriterwith jeers and carrots and popular catch wordsvn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with jeer=Theme
2enjoypresentschool childrenthe sight of a gentleman in difficultiesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
3sight in a quotea gentleman in difficultiesnom sight «cognition 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:31.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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