The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 5
Dressed up and giggled at, Toad walks out past gate after gate, the warders joking with the «washerwoman» all the way, until the little gate clicks behind him and he feels the fresh air: he is free!
Who acts: Toad, warders, little gate · What happens: dress up, giggle at, walk out, joke, click, feel · To what, where: way, fresh air
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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, warders, little gate), 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 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 walks | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Dressed | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 giggled | cc |
| 4 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dressed | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 giggled | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 giggled | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walks | nsubj |
| 8 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 walks | compound:prt |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walks | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walks | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walks | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 warders | det |
| 16 | warders | warder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 joking | nsubj |
| 17 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 walks | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 washerwoman | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 washerwoman | det |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 washerwoman | punct |
| 21 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joking | obl |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 washerwoman | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 way | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joking | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 clicks | punct |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 clicks | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gate | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gate | amod |
| 30 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 clicks | nsubj |
| 31 | clicks | click | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 walks | conj |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 clicks | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 feels | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 feels | nsubj |
| 36 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 clicks | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 air | amod |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feels | obj |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 free | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 free | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 free | cop |
| 43 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 feels | conj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | participle | Toad not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | giggle at | participle | Toad not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk out | present | Toad | after gate | past gate | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | joke speech: other | gerund | the warders | all way | with the washerwoman | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with washerwoman=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | click | present | the little gate | behind Toad | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | ||||
| 6 | feel | present | Toad | the fresh air | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | Toad | free 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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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