The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 8
He sees «red and green lights» and hears «the puffing and snorting of engines and the banging of shunted trucks» (shunted = pushed from one track to another): a railway station.
Who acts: washerwoman · What happens: see, hear, shunt, push, puff · To what, where: red lights, puffing, one track, engines · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sees | nsubj |
| 2 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lights | punct |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lights | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 green | cc |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | conj |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sees | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lights | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hears | cc |
| 10 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sees | conj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 puffing | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 puffing | det |
| 13 | puffing | puffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hears | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snorting | cc |
| 15 | snorting | snorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 puffing | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 engines | case |
| 17 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 puffing | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 banging | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 banging | det |
| 20 | banging | banging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 puffing | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trucks | case |
| 22 | shunted | shunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 trucks | amod |
| 23 | trucks | truck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 banging | nmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 hears | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 shunted | punct |
| 26 | shunted | shunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sees | parataxis |
| 27 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 28 pushed | punct |
| 28 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 shunted | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 track | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 track | nummod |
| 31 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pushed | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 another | case |
| 33 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 28 pushed | obl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 pushed | punct |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 station | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 station | det |
| 37 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 station | compound |
| 38 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sees | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | washerwoman | red lights | a railway station obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | present | washerwoman not said here | the puffing of engines and snorting and the banging of shunted trucks | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer puffing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shunt in a quote | participle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | shunt | participle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | push | participle | one track | to another | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from track=Initial_Location to another=Destination | ||||
| 6 | puff in a quote | engines | nom puffing «act 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:8.
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, 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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