The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 3
Crying on the platform, he wonders about hiding under a seat, when a kind engine-driver says «Hullo, mother!
Who acts: washerwoman, kind engine driver · What happens: cry, wonder, hide, say · To what, where: platform, seat · 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, kind engine driver), 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 | Crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wonders | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 platform | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 platform | det |
| 4 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crying | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crying | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wonders | nsubj |
| 7 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 hiding | mark |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wonders | advcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 seat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 seat | det |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hiding | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 says | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 driver | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 driver | amod |
| 17 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driver | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 engine | punct |
| 19 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wonders | advcl |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hullo | punct |
| 22 | Hullo | Hullo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 says | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hullo | punct |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Hullo | appos |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonders | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | washerwoman not said here | the platform | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on platform=Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | washerwoman | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | washerwoman not said here | a seat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under seat=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | a kind engine driver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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