The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 3
Later she brings tea and thick, hot buttered toast; Toad sits up, eats, and soon starts boasting about himself, his house and how important he is.
Who acts: smell, Toad · What happens: bring, butter, sit up, eat, start, boast · To what, where: tea
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 (smell, 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 brings | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 toast | cc |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toast | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thick | punct |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toast | amod |
| 9 | buttered | butter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 toast | amod |
| 10 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tea | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sits | punct |
| 12 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sits | nsubj |
| 13 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 sits | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eats | punct |
| 16 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sits | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 starts | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 starts | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 starts | advmod |
| 20 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | conj |
| 21 | boasting | boast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 starts | xcomp |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 boasting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 house | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 himself | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 important | cc |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 important | advmod |
| 29 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 house | conj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 important | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 important | cop |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | 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 | bring | present | smell | tea and thick hot buttered toast | late property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tea=Theme | |||
| 2 | butter | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sit up | present | Toad | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | Toad not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | start | present | smell not said here | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | boast speech: other | gerund | smell not said here | about Toad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | present | Toad | important property | tree rules |
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:3.
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 ×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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