The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 5
At last he slips out, pays, and goes round to the yard — just to LOOK at it, surely there's no harm in that.
Who acts: Toad, harm · What happens: slip out, pay, go, look, be · To what, where: that
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 (Toad, harm), 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 | At | at | ADV | _ | 4 slips | advmod |
| 2 | last | last | ADV | _ | 1 At | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slips | nsubj |
| 4 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 slips | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pays | punct |
| 7 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slips | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slips | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 yard | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 round | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 LOOK | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 LOOK | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 LOOK | mark |
| 18 | LOOK | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 goes | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 LOOK | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 's | punct |
| 22 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 24 's | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 's | expl |
| 24 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slips | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 harm | det |
| 26 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 's | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 's | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | present | Toad | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | pay | present | Toad not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present | Toad not said here | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | at yard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | present | no harm | that; there | surely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in that=Location |
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:5.
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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