The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 7
«I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» Next moment, as if in a dream, he is in the driver's seat roaring out onto the open road — Toad the Terror, Lord of the lone trail!
Who acts: Toad, sort, seat · What happens: wonder, be, roar out, sort · To what, where: seat, open road, starts
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, sort, seat), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | advcl |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 starts | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sort | det |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 easily | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 starts | case |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sort | nmod |
| 9 | starts | start | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sort | nmod |
| 10 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 wonder | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 13 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seat | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 seat | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 seat | mark |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dream | det |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seat | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dream | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seat | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 seat | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 seat | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 driver | det |
| 26 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seat | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 driver | case |
| 28 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moment | appos |
| 29 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 seat | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 roaring | compound:prt |
| 31 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 34 road | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 road | det |
| 33 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 road | amod |
| 34 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roaring | obl |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Toad | punct |
| 36 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 road | appos |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Terror | det |
| 38 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Toad | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Lord | punct |
| 40 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Toad | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 trail | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 trail | det |
| 43 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 trail | amod |
| 44 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Lord | nmod |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Toad | easily property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sort | the driver's seat | in a dream | tree rules | |||
| 3 | roar out | gerund | the driver's seat not said here | the open road | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto road=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | starts | nom sort «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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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