The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 0
Free but dizzy with success, Toad hurries away from the town where the real washerwoman is so well known, and sees the red and green lights of a railway station: just what he needs, and a train for home leaves in half an hour.
Who acts: Toad, train · What happens: hurry away, know, see, need, leave, light · To what, where: town, real washerwoman, red lights, railway station
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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, train), 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 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hurries | advcl |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 dizzy | cc |
| 3 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Free | conj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 success | case |
| 5 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dizzy | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurries | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hurries | nsubj |
| 8 | hurries | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 hurries | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurries | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 known | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 washerwoman | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 washerwoman | amod |
| 16 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 known | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 known | aux:pass |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 known | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 known | advmod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 town | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sees | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sees | cc |
| 23 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurries | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lights | det |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lights | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 green | cc |
| 27 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 red | conj |
| 28 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sees | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 station | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 station | det |
| 31 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 station | compound |
| 32 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lights | nmod |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 needs | punct |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 what | advmod |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 needs | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 needs | nsubj |
| 37 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sees | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 leaves | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 leaves | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 train | det |
| 41 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leaves | nsubj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 home | case |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 train | nmod |
| 44 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 needs | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 hour | case |
| 46 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 48 hour | det:predet |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 hour | det |
| 48 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leaves | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry away | present | Toad | the town | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from town=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | know | present · passive | the real washerwoman | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present | Toad not said here | the red lights of a railway station | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | need | present | Toad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | present | a train for home | hour | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | light | a railway station | nom light «phenomenon 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:0.
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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