The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 21
Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ...
Who acts: Toad · What happens: describe, contain · To what, where: house
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 (Toad), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describes | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 advert | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 agent | det |
| 7 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agent | compound |
| 8 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advert | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 agent | case |
| 10 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describes | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 describes | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 residence | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gentleman | det |
| 14 | eligible | eligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gentleman | amod |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contained | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 self | punct |
| 17 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gentleman | amod |
| 18 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 residence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 gentleman | case |
| 20 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advert | appos |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 unique | advmod |
| 22 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 residence | amod |
| 23 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 describes | 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 | describe | present | Toad | Toad's house | like a estate agent's advert | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain in a quote | participle | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:21.
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): no change. 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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