The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 21
Toad «jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhurt, scrambled into the wood and hid»; when the chase has passed he has «a hearty laugh — for the first time since he was thrown into prison».
Who acts: Toad, chase · What happens: jump, roll down, pick up, scramble, hide, pass · To what, where: short embankment, Toad, wood, hearty laugh, chase, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Toad, chase), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolled | punct |
| 5 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 embankment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 embankment | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 embankment | amod |
| 9 | embankment | embankment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 picked | punct |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 picked | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 14 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 picked | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scrambled | punct |
| 16 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scrambled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hid | cc |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 picked | conj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 passed | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chase | det |
| 26 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 passed | aux |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 has | advcl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 laugh | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 laugh | det |
| 33 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 laugh | amod |
| 34 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obj |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obl |
| 40 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 43 thrown | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 thrown | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 thrown | aux:pass |
| 43 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 time | acl |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 prison | case |
| 45 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 thrown | obl |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 43 thrown | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in a quote | past | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | roll down in a quote | past | Toad not said here | a short embankment | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embankment=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pick up in a quote | past | Toad not said here | Toad | unhurt property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 4 | scramble in a quote | past | Toad not said here | the wood | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | ||||
| 5 | hide in a quote | past | Toad not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | pass | present · perfect | the chase | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | present | chase | a hearty laugh | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient | |||
| 8 | throw in a quote | past · passive | chase | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into prison=Result |
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:21.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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