The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 0
The train rattles off with Toad in the engine's cab; fields, cows and hedges fly past, and he skips and sings, dreaming of supper, money and praise at Toad Hall — the strangest washerwoman the driver has ever seen.
Who acts: train, fields, Toad, driver · What happens: rattle off, fly, skip, sing, dream, see · To what, where: strangest washerwoman
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» 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 (train, fields, Toad, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 train | det |
| 2 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rattles | nsubj |
| 3 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 rattles | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Toad | case |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rattles | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cab | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 engine | det |
| 9 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cab | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 engine | case |
| 11 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Toad | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fly | punct |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cows | punct |
| 15 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fields | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hedges | cc |
| 17 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cows | conj |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rattles | parataxis |
| 19 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 fly | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 skips | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 skips | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 skips | nsubj |
| 23 | skips | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sings | cc |
| 25 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 skips | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dreaming | punct |
| 27 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 skips | advcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 supper | case |
| 29 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dreaming | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 money | punct |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 supper | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 praise | cc |
| 33 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 supper | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 Toad | case |
| 35 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 dreaming | obl |
| 36 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Toad | flat |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 washerwoman | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 washerwoman | det |
| 39 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 washerwoman | amod |
| 40 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Toad | appos |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 driver | det |
| 42 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 seen | nsubj |
| 43 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 seen | aux |
| 44 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 seen | advmod |
| 45 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 washerwoman | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rattles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle off | present | the train | with Toad in the engine's cab | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | fields and cows and hedges | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | skip | present | Toad | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | present | Toad not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dream | gerund | Toad not said here | of supper and money and praise; at Toad | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | see | present · perfect | the driver | the strangest washerwoman not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washerwoman=Stimulus |
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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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