The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 14
She keeps a canary, «several piebald mice» (patchy black and white) and «a restless revolving squirrel» (in a turning cage); at night the canary's cage is covered with an antimacassar (a cloth for the back of a chair).
Who acts: Badger · What happens: keep, revolve, cover · To what, where: canary, cage
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (Badger), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 canary | det |
| 4 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mice | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 mice | punct |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mice | amod |
| 8 | piebald | piebald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mice | amod |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keeps | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 mice | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 patchy | punct |
| 12 | patchy | patchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mice | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 patchy | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 white | cc |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 black | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 black | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 squirrel | cc |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 squirrel | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 squirrel | det |
| 20 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 squirrel | amod |
| 21 | revolving | revolve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 squirrel | amod |
| 22 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mice | conj |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 squirrel | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 cage | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cage | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cage | det |
| 27 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cage | compound |
| 28 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 squirrel | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 cage | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 covered | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 covered | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 canary | det |
| 34 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cage | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 canary | case |
| 36 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 covered | aux:pass |
| 38 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 keeps | parataxis |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 antimacassar | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 antimacassar | det |
| 41 | antimacassar | antimacassar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 covered | obl |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 cloth | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 cloth | det |
| 44 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 antimacassar | appos |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 back | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 back | det |
| 47 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cloth | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 chair | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 chair | det |
| 50 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 back | nmod |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 cloth | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Badger | a canary | several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel in a turning cage obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canary=Theme | |||
| 2 | revolve in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | cover | present · passive | the canary's cage | night | with a antimacassar | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with antimacassar=Theme |
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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:14.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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