The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 12
Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated» and finds «not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket!»
Who acts: washerwoman · What happens: struggle, reach, situate, find, hold · To what, where: waistcoat pockets, money, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (washerwoman), 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 | Struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reaches | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 gown | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gown | det |
| 4 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gown | compound |
| 5 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Struggling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Struggling | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reaches | nsubj |
| 8 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 situated | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 situated | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 pockets | det |
| 12 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pockets | compound |
| 13 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 situated | nsubj:pass | |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 16 situated | advmod |
| 16 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reaches | xcomp |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 situated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 « | cc |
| 19 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reaches | conj |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 finds | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 money | advmod |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 money | advmod |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 money | det |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finds | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pocket | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 pocket | cc |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 pocket | det |
| 28 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 money | conj | ||
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pocket | acl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hold | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 waistcoat | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 waistcoat | cc |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 waistcoat | det |
| 35 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 money | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hold | mark |
| 37 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 waistcoat | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pocket | det |
| 39 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hold | obj | ||
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 waistcoat | punct |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | gerund | washerwoman not said here | with the cotton gown | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gown=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | present | washerwoman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | situate in a quote | present · passive | all waistcoat pockets | eternally property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | present | washerwoman not said here | no money but no pocket and no waistcoat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hold in a quote | to-infinitive | washerwoman not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hold in a quote | to-infinitive | washerwoman not said here | the pocket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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