The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 10
The chasing engine is full of «Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pot-hats ... plain-clothes detectives ... waving revolvers and walking-sticks» (halberd = long pole with an axe-blade; truncheon = police club; pot-hat = bowler hat).
Who acts: chasing engine, Men · What happens: be, wave, dress · To what, where: halberds, truncheons, revolvers
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 (chasing engine, Men), 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 | 3 engine | det |
| 2 | chasing | chasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engine | compound |
| 3 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Men | case |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Men | punct |
| 8 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 warders | case |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warders | amod |
| 11 | warders | warder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Men | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waving | punct |
| 13 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Men | acl |
| 14 | halberds | halberd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 waving | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 policemen | punct |
| 16 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Men | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 helmets | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 helmets | nmod:poss |
| 19 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 policemen | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waving | punct |
| 21 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 waving | conj |
| 22 | truncheons | truncheon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 waving | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 shabbily | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shabbily | cc |
| 25 | shabbily | shabbily | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 men | advmod |
| 26 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 men | amod |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Men | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hats | case |
| 29 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hats | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 pot | punct |
| 31 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 men | nmod |
| 32 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 36 detectives | punct |
| 33 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clothes | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 plain | punct |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 detectives | compound |
| 36 | detectives | detective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Men | conj |
| 37 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 38 waving | punct |
| 38 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 full | advcl |
| 39 | revolvers | revolver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 waving | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sticks | cc |
| 41 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sticks | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 walking | punct |
| 43 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 revolvers | conj |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 halberd | punct |
| 46 | halberd | halberd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | parataxis |
| 47 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 49 pole | punct |
| 48 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pole | amod |
| 49 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 halberd | conj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 blade | case |
| 51 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 blade | det |
| 52 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 blade | compound |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 axe | punct |
| 54 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pole | nmod |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 truncheon | punct |
| 56 | truncheon | truncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 halberd | conj |
| 57 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 59 club | punct |
| 58 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 club | compound |
| 59 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 halberd | conj |
| 60 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 63 hat | punct |
| 61 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 hat | compound |
| 62 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 pot | punct |
| 63 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 halberd | conj |
| 64 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 66 hat | punct |
| 65 | bowler | bowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 hat | compound |
| 66 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 halberd | conj |
| 67 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 sticks | punct |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the chasing engine | of Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wave in a quote | gerund | Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives not said here | halberds | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halberd=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wave in a quote | gerund | Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives not said here | truncheons | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truncheon=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dress in a quote | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | wave in a quote | gerund | the chasing engine not said here | revolvers and walking sticks | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:10.
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, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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